"When the Heart Gets What It Wants-Life Lessons from Woody Allen" by Chuck Colson

In his commentary Colson exposes Woody Allen's nihilistic worldview which provides the foundation for Allen's quote:

"It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you."

Nihilism Defined:

• "The rejection of objective moral values and structures, literally 'nothingness'." C. Stephen Evans
• "A denial of all objective grounds for truth. A belief that existence is basically senseless and useless, breeding often to destructive tendencies in society or in the individual." Francis Schaeffer.