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"You start to think, when you're younger, how important everything
is and how things have to go right - your job, your career, your
life, your choices, and all of that. Then, after a while, you
start to realize that - I'm talking the big picture here -
eventually you die, and eventually the sun burns out and the earth
is gone, and eventually all the stars and all the planets in the
entire universe go, disappear, and nothing is left at all. 
Nothing - Shakespeare and Beethoven and Michelangelo gone. And
you think to yourself that there's a lot of noise and sound and 
fury - and where's it going? It's not going any place...Now, you 
can't actually live your life like that, because if you do you 
just sit there and - why do anything? Why get up in the morning 
and do anything? So I think it's the job of the artist to try and 
figure out why, given this terrible fact, you want to go on living."

Woody Allen