Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.
Only the most lucid can see their love as comedy.
People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.
Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?
Even in rapture, part of the mind watches.
Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.