God knows

"In Italy for thirty years underthe Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed- but they produced Michealangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five-hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cukoo clock." --Graham Greene

"If I were to choose between pain and nothing, I would choose pain." William Faulkner