BERNIE: But I did okay, didn’t I? I mean I got, what, fifteen thousand years. That’s pretty good, isn’t it? I lived a pretty long time.

DEATH: You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less. You got a lifetime.

Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) British author, screenwriter, fabulist

Sandman, Book 7. Brief Lives, # 43 “Part 3” (1992-11)
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