“Usha had said that males were not all that different, just bigger outside to make up for what they lacked within.”
Part 3, Chapter 4 (p. 134)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
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“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
Title of poem (1942)
1940s

On her goals in songwriting, The Guardian (December 11, 1991)
1991–1995

Oskar during a visit to his therapist, Dr. Fein
"Happiness, Happiness" (p. 201)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: "I feel too much. That's what's going on." "Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel the wrong ways? "My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside and outsides match up?" "I don't know. I'm only me." "Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside." "But it's worse for me." "I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him." "Probably. But it really is worse for me."

[Thomas, Marlo, 2004, The Right Words at the Right Time, 229, Simon and Schuster, 978-0-743-44650-1]

“What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.”
Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead