Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence-perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future. (Michael Moorcock)

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence-perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

Michael Moorcock

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