Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.