“Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. ”
“I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”
“Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?”
“Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.”
“There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.”
“Is food a substitute for love? No, love is a substitute for food. And a pretty poor substitute at that.”