“There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.”
“Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.”
“My head questions everything and believes nothing.""So your head wants proof and your heart wants reassurance?”
“Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.”
“There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.”
“Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.”