With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it. - Steven Erikson

"Tattersail smiled. "The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

In that Malazan Book of the Fallen, the historians will write of our suffering, and they will speak of it as the suffering of those who served the Crippled God. As something … fitting. And for our seeming fanaticism they will dismiss all that we were, and think only of what we achieved. Or failed to achieve.
And in so doing, they will miss the whole fucking point.

The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring — all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims... for what?