Desdemona quotes

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.

- Arthur Koestler
  'The Boredom of Fantasy', collected in The Trail of the Dinosaur (1955), pt.2.