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I mentioned my affinity for the Canadian man of letters Robertson Davies in an earlier journal entry. He is, in my view, a great artist for many reasons, but perhaps most significantly so because he speaks what I believe, even when I have not yet put words to those beliefs myself.
I think that pessimism, depression, and mournfulness and a sense of despair are great killers.
In my book, World of Wonders, there is a fortune teller who comments to a little boy that all the people who come to her, young and old, say to her so often: “Is this all that life has for me?”
I think a lot of people feel that. They have unreasonable expectations because they never stop to consider what life actually has to offer them. They’re always looking for some great epiphany from the skies. They never stop to consider that fact which human beings find hardest to recognize: “Maybe I’m not worthy of an epiphany.”
- Robertson Davies, Conversations with Robertson Davies
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