changeless... or sometimes i forget...

"Some things are changeless. People love, and die, they dream, destroy, despair, go mad. They fulfill their destinies, live out the course of their lives. We fulfill our function, as they fulfill theirs... That will not change..."

"You think not...?"

-Despair and Destruction, in Sandman #41: "Brief Lives:1"

"Lucien? Were you ever alive?"
"I don't think so, no."
"You don't think so?"
"I can remember the title, author, and location of every book in this library, Matthew. Every book that's ever been dreamed. Every book that's ever been imagined. Every book that's ever been lost. Millions upon millions of them. That's what I remember. It's my job. Other things... I forget sometimes..."

-Matthew and Lucien, in Sandman #57: "The Kindly Ones:1"