His own work, he added, does something more: "A good cartoon explains, and makes bearable, the injustice in the world."

And life went on, made bearable by the occasional chewing of those bright, beautiful blue pills.

For the first time he realized that people drank to make bearable the unbearable.

What makes the mundane bearable is a clear eye and the knowledge that nothing is still.

"Travel in the dark is made bearable by the ability to see for such a long distance."

It was about a lack that demanded to be made bearable by art.

The central heating experience so far had been a nightmare, made bearable only by the fact that we could stay outside during the day.

As he knows well, that's often the only tone in which local tragedy can be made bearable.

All this humiliation is made more bearable by the fact that the dream is the right size.

Each moment lived in this, the most terrible period in his life, had been made almost bearable by her care.