I extract significance from melodrama, a significance which it does not in fact contain; but occasionally, from out of this matter, there escapes a t… - Tom Stoppard

Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.

It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which should make all the difference, shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in a box would you?... Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, it isn't a pleasant thought. Especially if you're dead, really. Ask yourself, if I asked you straight off — I'm going to stuff you in this box now would you rather be alive or dead? Naturally you'd prefer to be alive. Life in a box is better than no life at all.

The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.