It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted - Mary Renault

You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets so that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.'<nowiki></nowiki>

It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and they
feel the black cold of chaos.

Man's immortality is not to live for ever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.