"According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold;and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atomsand a void." -- Democritus, 400 B.C."Failure is not fatal; success is not final. It is the courage to continue that counts." -- Winston Churchill"But be on thy guard against the good and the just! They would feign crucify those who devise their own virtue. They hate the lonesome ones." -- Nietzsche"You know what I want, Scribble," he says."Yeah. What we all want. A glass of Fetish. Clean Drugs. Good Friends. A hot partner. All that. ... Something more..." -- Jeff Noon, "Vurt"