Idleness is only fatal to the mediocre. - Albert Camus

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.