Her smile was all pride. I had seen many like her in the past. She believed herself cleverer than she was… — Michael Moorcock

Your imagination is notoriously poor. Not everyone holds identical ambitions to your own!

Indeed, to be a hero, forever at war, is to be in some ways always a child. The true challenge comes in making sense of one’s life, of imbuing it with purpose based on one’s own principles.

“For years my lady made her plans. And when the time came to put them into action, how wonderfully she was able to achieve her ambitions.”

“Only because few rational people can ever begin to understand such a lust for power,” said von Bek feelingly. “There is nothing more puerile than the mind of a tyrant.”