Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.

Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.

Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.

Complainers detest each other.

Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.