As for your own end, Menelaus, you shall not die

in Argos, but the Immortals will take you to the

Elysian plain, which is at the ends of the world.

There fair-haired Rhadamanthus reigns, and men

lead an easier life than anywhere else in the world,

for in Elysium there falls not rain, nor hail, nor snow,

but Oceanus breathes ever with a West wind that sings

softly from the sea, and gives fresh life to all men.

— HOMER, The Odyssey

They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

— GEORGE CARLIN