“If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.”
“If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.”
“I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"And he says, How much time do you want?”
“How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask."Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.”
“How can you give up the world? Just do what you ought to do, and it will give you up.”
“When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)”