" Listen, you pathetic little man... you pathetic little dead man. You're making a fundamental error, I'm not dead. Tried it once, didn't like it. Right now-right this instant. as I look into your rheumy little gimlet corpse eyes-I am alive. I have come here at a great inconvenience "

― Jonathan L. Howard , Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Johannes Cabal, #1)