Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.
The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.