Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

[Charles] Nodier’s later view was that fantasy reconciles men to their fate. Fantasy and the taste for chimeras, he wrote, are symptoms of a time of political decay and transition, when the unpleasant realities of political life are too hard to bear. They serve a useful purpose in that they give men hope when scepticism and disillusion would otherwise drive them to despair.

Good Samaritans: Truth, justice and the American way–for them it wasn't only a comic book code; it was a way of life. It was admirable, courageous, and inconvenient as shit. -Stefan, CHIMERA.