ellen's comment:

[Carol Orr]

We live in a broad and generous universe, but we act as if we lived
inside an elevator. "

This reminds me of that Peter Seller's movie...Being Here....where he spends
his whole life in one house as a butler and never goes out(does nothing but
watch tv and garden). Finally, the man he works for dies and he has to go out
in the real world. He is walking and he comes across some nefarious people and
he has his remote with him and he tries to change the channel. He ends up
being hit by a car owned by a very wealthy lady and she brings him home. Her
butler is taking him upstairs to his room in the elevator in the house when
Peter Sellers' character says, "this is a small room".

(Maybe you had to be there to see the humor but I never forgot that one
scene.)