Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance. - Michael Moorcock

For this was the other thing that Elric knew; that to compromise with Tyranny is always to be destroyed by it. The sanest and most logical choice lay always in resistance.

There are subjects forbidden by good manners, it seems. As in many societies, I suppose, where the very fundamentals of their existence are the subject of the deepest taboos. What is this terror of reality, I wonder, which plagues the human spirit?

Redefine the terms by which Man views the world, and thus eventually you redefine the world itself.