"I told myself I could not be unhappy because it was logically impossible. But then I remembered those Greek philosophers, all eminiently sane and rational, arguing with inexorable logic towards a truth which turned out to be not a truth, but an absurdity. Zeno had proved everything in the world was fixed and unchanging, Heraclitus had proved everything in the world was changing continuously, and both men had provided impeccable arguments to support their points of view. But reality, as Democritus had later tried to show, had all the time lain elsewhere.
I saw a chaotic world of infinite complexity where reason was impotent, and instinctively I recoiled from it. I had long since decided that a successful life was like a well-ordered game governed, as all games were, by rules. One grew up, learned the rules, played one’s chosen game and won. That was what life was all about. Any fool knew that." — from Susan Howatch’s The Wheel of Fortune