Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.
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.
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.