“Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.”
“When happiness is liked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I should strive after happiness only for myself?”
“There are no such things as synonyms!" he practically shouted. "Deluge is not the same as flood.”
“As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?”
“If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.”
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”