“I don't think unhappiness is fated.”
“Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.”
“It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”
“Do I want to be like him? Not really, I don't think. But I find myself worrying away at that stuff about pop music again, whether I like it because I'm unhappy, or whether I'm unhappy because I like.”
“I used to think it was immoral to be unhappy.”
“I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.”