Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.
Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.
Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.
City wits, country humorists.
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.
In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.