I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something can still make you happy, can't it, even if it isn't real.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.

Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.