Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.
There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.
...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.
To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.
The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.
But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.