Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.
John DarnielleOver the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
John DarnielleThere's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a way to ride it out so that they don't wind up needing extra help. So I think that "mental illness," as a term, is garbage. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something.
John Darnielle