Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.

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.

God does so love to make a man break a promise.

Eddie Drood: Is this why we become agents? To play games, to chase after secrets that are rarely worth all the blood spilled on their behalf...To end up stabbed in the back, just when you thought you'd won, bleeding out in some nameless backstreet...With most people never even knowing who you were, or what you did, or why it mattered?

You want me to sneak up on an angel and rip out its pinfeathers, so you can make a fashion statement?

You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.

Never go anywhere without condiments. Condiments are our friends.