I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.
If we had created rules to automatically turn up the required down payment on a home when there's a housing bubble, or just say that the mortgage on a property cannot be larger than the value of the property three years ago, the amount of human misery that would've been avoided would've been enormous.
There is winning and there is misery.
When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.
Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.
Look at all the misery in the Middle East, for example. All these countries have Islam in common, and far too few dare to criticize Islam as an ideology, and what it's doing to these countries. I know I might get punched in the face for saying these things, but my conviction is that less religion in the world would be better.
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.
