„And in his heart, I think, he´s now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I´ve said all along, that the sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in this world.“

„I ran out of the small café area beside the pit and headed to the bathroom, where I sat for ten minutes and cried. It´s a credit to the human race that several women knocked gently on the door and asked if there was anything they could do. But there wasn´t.“

(Douglas Coupland, „Hey, Nostradamus“)