“I also knew—as the years went on—that I wasn't smart enough to be Schopenhauer or Nietzsche or Wittgenstein or Sartre or Simone Weil. I aimed to be in their company, as a disciple; to work on their level. I had, I knew—I have—a good mind, even a powerful one. I'm good at understanding things— + ordering them—and using them. (My cartographic mind.) But I'm not a genius. I've always known that.”
But I'm not a genius. I've always known that.