“This shit would be really interesting if we weren't in the middle of it.”
“This would be really funny if it weren't happening to me.”
“The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.”
“If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.”
“Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that. But still, it is not right that rich people make us middle people feel dopey and inadequate.”
“We weren't really friends yet, just knowers of each other's secret stuff.”