The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.
Necessity makes heroes of us all.
Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.
Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.