“Listen! The world only exists in your eyes—your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to. And you’re trying to be a little puny individual. By God, if I ever cracked, I’d try to make the world crack with me. Listen! The world only exists through your apprehension of it, and so it’s much better to say that it’s not you that’s cracked”

— a person whose life makes other people’s lives seem like death in F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up, Esquire, 1936