“Only the flesh dies, Kerry. The flesh is vapor. When the vapor drifts away and is gone, only we remain.”
“Death stripes away many things, especially when it arrives at a temperature hot enough to vaporize iron ... The immortal remains of Brother Watchtower watched the dragon flap away into the fog ....”
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”
“(Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away.”
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character.”
“The dripping blood our only drink,The bloody flesh our only food:In spite of which we like to thinkThat we are sound, substantial flesh and blood--Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.”