There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer. Not to love is to suffer.
Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.
Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.
Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.
There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!
The only thing that does change, to some degree, is [that] you have some life experiences, you suffer a certain amount and you incorporate that into your work. Not in the content of your work, but in the sensibility of your work. It's nothing that you try and do; it just happens. And if you're lucky, people buy tickets to see it, and if you're not lucky, [then] they don't like it. But that's all.
