Other people may live in pain but deny it. The comic mind, on the other hand, lives in pain, but has the courage to express it.  The comic mind has the moral strength to see life as it is, and use their art to wake us up to what is right and sane. The comic mind tells the truth.*
Robert McKee

Artists help us to understand ourselves and our time through pictures, parables and actions.**
Keith Haring

I read recently how the
line dividing good and evil runs through
the centre of each one of us.

Our best art, performance, stories, myths, poems, and comedy
help us to see and understand and
embrace this truth,
So that we might daily,
wrestle with it
for all our sakes.

And there was war in heaven.
Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon,
and the dragon and his angels fought back. 
But he was not strong enough,
and they lost their place in heaven.
The great dragon was hurled down –
that ancient serpent called the devil,
or Satan,
who leads the whole world astray.^

*Robert McKee‘s newsletter: Do You Have a Comic Mind?;
**Keith Haring’s Keith Haring Journals;
^Revelation 12:7-9.