“No sense in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.”
“I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs - is how the world works. The world isn't logical; it's a song.”
“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”
“If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”
“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
“I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.”