Very few people seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown, answers they have already shaped in their own minds – justification, explanations, forms of consolation without which they cannot go on. To really ASK is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.” Marius in Anne Rice's, The Vampire Lestat.