“I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.”
“In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.”
“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. ”
“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”
“A man of principles," Jesse said."People say that about themselves when really they only want to make you unhappy.”
“As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.”