One more thing I will tell you, the great secret I learned through my experience." "What was that?" "Never listen to idle tales. They make you mad an… - Darrell Schweitzer

Behind her, far away, filling the skies that were not of Earth, was the face of another, a mountainous Dark One who sat awash in a lake of molten metal with a sword in his hand. When I gaze upon him I knew the truth of all. I knew that if God is mad, and the signs show that he is, his Foe is mad also, and there can be no hope for the world between them, for creation is but a battleground for two maniacs in their death struggle.

I listened to all this with the dull incomprehension of a pig in the slaughterhouse overhearing the talk of two butchers.

Have I come to a second Bedlam? Are you all mad here?"
"Madness is the order of the day," the lord replied. "Even God is mad. We follow divine example.