"The great comics all have a hole in their chest where their heart should be. Somebody yanked their heart out when they were just kids, and they've been spending their whole lives trying to fill that hole. Or kill the pain. I know that I did."

(Richard Pryor, nato Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III, attore comico; Peoria, 1º dicembre 1940 – Encino, 10 dicembre 2005)