One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

We humans absorb a lot of negativity in this world, but dogs are pure joy.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

I saw 'Joy Luck Club' when it came out, so that was early mid-'90s, and I remember seeing it with my long-time collaborator, Mina Shum. We'd just done 'Double Happiness,' and we saw this movie, and we were weeping. Like, shuddering weeping. Weeping more than really the film deserved.