Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.
In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.
A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.