"I realize that in this kind of world," Lucas said, "I have no business of being so unhappy. I realize that on a religious level I'll always be a child. It's absurd and I regret it."
     For the first time Herzog smiled.
    "Don't regret it, sir. Perhaps you know Malraux's Anti-mémoires? His priest tells us that people are much more unhappy than one might think." He offered Lucas his hand. "And that there is no such thing as a grownup."

- Robert Stone, Damascus Gate