» No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
» If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
» People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
» Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
» The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.