They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves.

Love and used Subarus were two different things. Weren't they?

Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.

Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?

The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality.