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It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

Unhappy people make me feel like I've done something wrong.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.