You know, it occurs to me that a "fatalist" would believe that whatever was gonna happen would happen, so why fight it. Which is pretty much the opposite of the theory that "one man can make a difference." Right?

PJ

"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K