“All Bette’s stories have happy endings. That’s because she knows where to stop. She’s realized the real problem with stories – if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”

(From Neil Gaiman’s Sandman sequence. A quotation which may just encapsulate the major theme of the sequence itself – not sure, because there’s rather a lot in the way of profound themes – but I think it does. I was reminded of it by seeing the info about the new Harry Potter book. Farewell then, young Harry. It was good to know you.)