“Every unhappy person thinks her unhappiness is unique.”
“To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.”
“While it's true that, as Tolstoy observed, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and everyone on planet Earth, vale of tears that it is, is certainly entitled to the specificity of his or her suffering, one nonetheless likes to think that literature has the power to render comprehensible different kinds of unhappiness. If it can't do that, what's it good for?”
“Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.”
“Most of the people who feel they are unhappy now are holding a grudge and wishing unhappiness on that person.”
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”