“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Smart and boy does he know it. The Artist Prince, clever tongue, wry sense of humor.

He's bright and lovely and beguiling one moment, a whirlwind of creative energy and dare-we-say joy, and the next he's the nastiest and/or glummest gentleman you might imagine.

It's Good when it's good, but extremely Bad when it's not.