Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Don't start anything you're not prepared to finish.

The world is always ending, for someone.

Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters.

This little piggy went to Hades This little piggy stayed home This little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh This little piggy violated virgins And this little piggy clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top

You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.