“There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.”

“There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.There are worse things than these miniature betrayals,committed or endured or suspected; there are worse thingsthan not being able to sleep for thinking about them.It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking inand stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.”

“Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.”

“I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair, far worse than any of all those things, is feeling that no one, absolutely no one, cares about us.”

“There are worse things than being mad.”

“Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.”