Quote taken from the beginning of Hubert Selby Jr.'s WAITING PERIOD:
'Everything has a purpose on this earth, and all things fulfill their purpose - seaweed, dung beetles, parasites - without agonizing or questioning. We are the only part of Creation that is blinded by desires and thus ignore our particular purpose, individually and collectively, and spend our lives in mad pursuit of nothingness'
Gottfried Llewelyn-Jones
'Anatomy and Evolution of Universal Madness'