There’s nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you’re insightful about it.

The line plays with a paradox: “shallow” usually implies superficiality and a lack of depth, but Miller suggests that self-awareness can redeem (or at least reframe) that condition. If you recognize your own limits—your preference for quick takes, surface impressions, or entertainment over rigor—you can avoid the pretense of profundity and the dogmatism that often accompanies it. The quip also satirizes modern commentary culture, where cleverness and speed are rewarded; it implies that honesty about one’s shallowness may be more intellectually responsible than performing depth. Ultimately, it’s a defense of ironic self-knowledge and a critique of unexamined superficiality.