the more things change... the more they stay the same...

"The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true..."

"Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powers. But that misses the point. Whatever he was, he changed the world..."

-from Neil Gaiman's "Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders"

"Um. What's the name of the word for things not being the same always. You know. I'm sure there is one. Isn't there? There must be a word for it ... the thing that lets you know time is happening. Is there a word?"
"Change..."

-Delirium and Dream, in "Sandman Volume 7: Brief Lives" by Neil Gaiman

"Lord, what was it the barbarian said, as the riders vanished?"
"Omnia mutantur, nihil interit... Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost..."

-Master Li and Dream, in "The Sandman Volume 10: The Wake" by Neil Gaiman