“Happy people are rarely interesting.”
“Happiness is an art mastered by the very few. Genuinely happy people are as rare as Christians who believe in God.”
“I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”
“Happiness is a treadmill of a goal for people who are not happy by nature. Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy.”
“I love a happy ending. They are so rare.”
“...literature must always be about gloom of one sort or another, on the principal that there is nothing interesting to be said about happy people.”