A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.
Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.
My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.
Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.
Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.
To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.