“True love is that which manages to avoid unnecessary suffering.”

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”

“Tertullian said of Christian belief that it was true because it was impossible. Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.”

“There are a great many ways in which, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts of people undeserved and unnecessary suffering.”

“One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.”

“We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.”