And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?

Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!

A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?

Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.