“The truly happy people are those who have a source of happiness too deep to be seriously disturbed by ordinary troubles.”

“We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us—and this is remarkable—the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea.”

“It's not like I'm such a shiny happy person either, you know? I'm a wreck too, I'm just... still alive.”

“I guess I talk a lot of shit about Perry, but it's not like I'm such a shiny happy person either, you know? I'm a wreck too. I'm just ... still alive. A wreck in progress.”

“...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?”

“The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.”

“I was a happy melancholy, though — a contradiction in terms, to be sure, but every human understands this paradox, because they have all felt it.”