All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners. - Jim Harrison

Shakespeare and a very few others qualified but thousands and thousands of others dropped into the void without a sound.

I must have awakened and fallen back to sleep a hundred times that night, listening to the wind rattle the palm fronds, the party noise of people jumping in the pool, the slurred shouts that the humidity and walls softened until all the words and dreams in the world became round.

I seek the substantial in life.