Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.
My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics.
I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.
Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.
You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.