sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.

It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass ring that usually involves people feeling some way about you – I mean, people wonder why we walk around feeling alienated and lonely and stressed out.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.

And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.