“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”
“The good thing about being a pessimist is that I'm either always right, or pleasantly surprised.”
“Pessimists have only pleasant surprises.”
“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
“I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.”
“But how much more pleasant was the sensation of being a missile without provenance or target, caught up in a tumult of non-Newtonian motion. So pleasant that pleasant was not the word.”