“No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us”

“We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old Things down here, sleeping all around us, in the earth and in the living rock, and in the spaces between spaces. Keep your voices down. Some of these old creatures sleep but lightly, and even their dreams can have force and substance in our limited world. We have come among forgotten gods and sleeping devils, from the days before the world settled down and declared itself sane.”

“I always feel most alive when everything else is dying all around me”

“Let us take it for granted that I am careless and ungrateful and never appreciate anything you do for me and move on, shall we.”

“What’s one more crazy thing in the midst of all this weirdness?”

“Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.”

“What value can one ordinary man have in a magical world? What can a mortal bring to the affairs of immortals?Insight. Honor. Morality. Perspective.Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.”