“I find that the less emotion I put into life, the less the past seems to hurt.”

“I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults.”

“I have found that the less expectation you put on others, the more happiness you will find with them and yourself.”

“As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.”

“I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.”

“Distant wrongs, she thought: an interesting issue in moral philosophy. Do past wrongs seem less wrong to us simply because they are less vivid?”