Cheers

"Happiness requires either ignorance or medication, preferably both."

"The world is divided into intelligent people and everyone else."

"Success and happiness are rarely found in the same person."

"Trust is an illusion people create to avoid confronting reality."

"I find small talk to be a form of psychological torture."

"Kindness is often mistaken for weakness by those who practice neither."

"The concept of self-improvement assumes one is flawed, which I dispute."

"Compromise is simply a slow path to mediocrity."

"Power comes from knowledge, and knowledge comes from study and isolation."

"Most people lack the intellectual capacity to understand their own dysfunction."

"I don't suffer fools gladly, or at all if I can manage it."

"The pursuit of beauty often blinds one to truth."

"People mistake comfort for happiness far too often."

"Marriage is a contractual arrangement, nothing more."

"I'm not being difficult; everyone else is being incompetent."

"Forgiveness is for those who lack the strength to hold a grudge."

"The truth is rarely pleasant, which is why people avoid it."

"Persistence in the face of stupidity is not a virtue."

"I have my standards and my dignity, often in that order."

"Most romantic notions are simply delusions we accept willingly."

"Standards exist for a reason—to separate the civilized from the barbarians."

"The mind is a beautiful prison we create for ourselves."

"Change is inevitable, but improvement is optional and rare."

"Education separates the exceptional from the merely competent."

"I would say I'm sorry, but that would require actually caring."

"Mediocrity is the natural state of most human beings."

"People lie constantly—to themselves and everyone else."

"The pursuit of happiness often leads to profound misery."

"Love is a chemical reaction in the brain, nothing more romantic than that."

"I don't do friendships; I do obligations."