On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds . . . To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping.
Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic.
Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation. And there is nothing left but the endless flow. In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library , 1997.