mistakes... or final days...

"I doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, and been up again. Have I learned aught? I've learned from my mistakes, but I've had more time to commit more mistakes..."

-Hob Gadling, in Sandman #13: "Men of Good Fortune"

"Death is a mug's game..."

-Hob Gadling, in "The Doll's House"

"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due..."

-Hob Gadling, in "Season of Mists"

"We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world..."

-the film director, in "Signal To Noise"