“It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.”
“Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn’t a place you can be happy anymore. It’s hard, but it’s true.”
“It’s a sad state of affairs when I’m the one bringing sanity to the equation”
“Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences")”
“That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution”
“Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly.”