“Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?”

“But darling there you go, slipping away into a state of grace
Granted, this world is not a perfect place.
Still it's the world that I'm in.
Here I am talking while you don't hear a word I say.
Knowing you're watching me from far away
Somewhere that I've never been.”

“I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.”

“Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.”

“It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.”

“Poetry I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle,
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it
one discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.”

“Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.”

“In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.”

“To give a man 5 sous because he is poor and has no bread is perfect, but to give him a blowjob because he has no girlfriend is too much of a good thing: you don't have to do that.”

“It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.”