"Have you ever felt depressed? What a foolish question -- who has not? But the depression we are concerned with is an unhappiness that seems to descend from nowhere, enshroud us for no apparent reason, and plunge us into a despair as to who we are and what we are doing here and why we are doing it, even whether we are alive and awake or simply asleep and dreaming the whole strange and sorry affair.
"Have you ever felt that there is a beautiful life that you are not leading, a wondrous world you cannot see, a peace and contentment that have somehow eluded you, and have you wondered where the fault lies? Is it with you or is there no such life, no such world, no such state of being, no such peace or contentment anywhere at all?"
"That's what I want: the absence of everything, a place where there's nothing."
"Waking and Sleeping," first broadcast by the CBS Radio Mystery Theater on June 29, 1981.
