"By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retians the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules." - Iain M. Banks Player of Games

“My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.” - Douglas Adams HHGTTG

“Madness, and then illumination.” - Orson Scott Card Xenocide

"Everythng in life is just for a while." - Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep

“The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.” - Philip K Dick Valis

This aint no place for no hero...