"A fiddler on the roof... Sounds crazy, no? But in our little village of Anatevka, you might say that every one of us is a fiddler on the roof, trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy."
"...and though the news was rather sad, I just had to laugh. I saw the photograph. He blew his mind out in a car. He didn't notice that the lights had changed. A crowd of people stood and stared. They'd seen his face before, nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords."
"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
One generation passes away, and another generation comes; But the earth abides forever.
The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it arose.
All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.
...and there is nothing new under the sun."
...from Ecclesiates 1