I think...I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt. — Neil Gaiman

The average daytime speed of a vehicle through the streets of central London has not changed in four hundred years. It’s still under ten miles an hour.

If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any more. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?

The map was gone, and the mapmaker, but the land lives on.