If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.
Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.
Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.