“Everything was good.But it was awful, too.”
“Everything was wonderful and then everything was awful.”
“The world was an awful place, too awful to live in, if people could kill a President so easily.”
“Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful.”
“Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself. Finally, you get just too tired, and the news is too awful, and humor doesn't work anymore.”
“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”