No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile.

Winter's Tale (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1983) - ISBN: 9780547543864