The Sublime Pause

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. (He laughs) Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. (He pauses) Let us not speak well of it either. (He pauses) Let us not speak of it at all.
- Pozzo in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot