The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual
I've never had time for friends. I've always worked too hard.
It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.
My vacations last one hour. Then I get bored, impatient.
When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.
There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
I don't feel secure at all. I don't know what actor would feel they've made it. I feel like I'm just starting.
I know how it feels to sit on the sideline and watch a spot that is supposed to be yours taken.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.
I don't have any social life or anything.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
At the end of the day, I've played six years, haven't made the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my heart, so I really want to be playing.
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .
People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Guys all want something beyond what they're being given - in every facet of life.
If you want to live a miserable life, making your life all about other people is the way to do it.
What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
