“In love, happiness is an abnormal state.”

“What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life — that is what is abnormal.”

“Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested”

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”

“The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.”

“She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.”

“Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.”

“I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.”

“Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.”

“Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits.”