At some point, it (pain) becomes bearable. It turns into something that you can crawl out from under and... carry around like a brick in your pocket. And you... you even forget it, for a while. But then you reach in for whatever reason and there it is." - Nat, Rabbit Hole.

Irony requires a certain amount of self-confidence. You have to have built enough of an identity to turn around and reject it, or to laugh at it. I think that's something that takes time. - A NYT correspondent.