“No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)”

“Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.”

“If it were true, that old legend about appearing before a supreme judge and naming one’s record, I would offer, with all my pride, not any act I committed, but one thing I have never done on this earth: that I never sought an outside sanction. I would stand and say: I am Gail Wynand, the man who has committed every crime except the foremost one: that of ascribing futility to the wonderful act of existence and seeking justification beyond myself. This is my pride: that now, thinking of the end, I don not cry like all the men of my age: but what was the use and the meaning? I was the use and meaning. I, Gail Wynand. That I lived and that I acted.”

“Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open”

“You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible youmight even forget yourself.”

“Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.”