I am always anxious.
From Alain de Botton
I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
There are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together.
As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.
Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style is utterly clear, brusque, funny and polemical in the best way.
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction.
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