“I have given up considering happiness as relevant.”
“She wanted children and considered having them a "privilege," but art also "was a privilege given to me and I had to pursue it.”
“When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy again then you will have given up.”
“Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.”
“At any given moment the choice to be happy is present- we just have to choose to be happy.”
“Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.”