“And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”

“Friendship only exist during happy times. There lies a betrayal line beyond those happy moments.”

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

“He spent the whole time sitting on a log in the woodshed, sometimes starting straight ahead with the fixity of a blind man who knows that even if he turns his head in the other direction he will still not see anything”

“A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.”

“My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”

“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”

“Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that”

“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.”

“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”