“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.”
“I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.”
“Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps of the world, maps that let you know what sorts of people and situations to avoid.”
“These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.”
“Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.”
“I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.”