" ...Tell me this. Are you all that happy? Be honest now.”

...”I think... there’s something wrong with your question, you know? I spend a lot of time happy; I spend a lot of time unhappy; I spend a lot of time just bored. Maybe if I worked real hard at it, I could avoid some of the happiness, but I doubt it. The other two I know I’m stuck with... "

― Samuel R. Delany , Dhalgren