We laugh, that we may not cry.

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.

Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.

We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised. We're kind of stuck inside that person, and the purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people. And for me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a little bit more about different hopes, aspirations, dreams and fears. It helps us to identify with the people who are sharing this journey with us.

Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.

And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up to our lives. To notice connections. To be amused or perhaps frightened by the ways things work out. If the universe is indifferent, what a consolation that we are not.