Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.