There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.
Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.