"It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way."

"After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending …"

"That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or …"

"I would like to create a speedier and more efficient system. Careers and reputations are at stake, and it w…"

"What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven."

"Words are living things, full of shades of meaning, full of associations; and, what is more, they are apt t…"

"To prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one’s whole life."