Trapped

And, looking back at what had promised to be our own unique, unpredictable, and dangerous adventure, all we find in the end is such a series of standard metamorphoses as men and women have undergone in every quarter of the world, in all recorded centuries, and under every odd disguise of civilization.

— Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it?

— Herman Melville, Moby Dick

The best is the enemy of the good.

— Voltaire