“You need to be happy to live, I don’t.”

“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.”

“I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don’t just go ahead and be happy.”

“People need to treat animals like they would treat a kid. You have to take care of it, make sure they are happy and they have anything they need. If you don’t have the time, then you don’t need an animal. … I want people to be aware of what is around them. Just because they don’t want to deal with it, doesn’t mean they can shut it out.”

“I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.”

“Don’t fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don’t need to swallow you whole, I don’t need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you’re there.”

“You can’t change how people feel about you, so don’t try. Just live your life and be happy.”

“Sometimes I think Johnson´s Lives of the English Poets is all I need to be happy.”

“People who are busy and happy don’t write diaries; they are too busy living.”

“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”