As I once heard Andrew—that's my disappearing brother—say: 'Life consist in accommodating oneself to the Universe.' Although the rest of our family has never taken that view. We believe if forcing the Universe to accommodate itself to us. It's all a question of which one is to be master.
Chapter XLVIII, L'Envoi or Rev. XXII: 13 (p. 486) - The Number of the Beast (1980)