“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.”

“You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.”

Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) British fabulist

The Sandman, Vol. 7, Brief Lives, “Chapter 3” [Bernie Capax and Death] (#43) (1992)