Less (Arthur Less, #1)

by Andrew Sean Greer

Nothing happened to me. I’m just a homosexual at a Broadway show.

I knew nothing of anxiety or other pointless human suffering. I only knew I had said the wrong thing.

What is it like to go on, knowing you are not a genius, knowing you are a mediocrity? I think it’s the worst kind of hell.”

“Maybe what you need at your age is a broken heart.”

But it was too late; that possible joy had departed forever.