“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success”

“Passions are less mischievous than boredom for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.”

“He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.”

“He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullsh...”

“Sane is boring.”

“Days that lift us like a wave, when you feel you could live forever.”

“Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.”

“The best days in the life of any person are the days of joy”