Better the nightmare we're in

 

most used line in the entire series

 

But go it alone and he'll nip you off quick

An individual can see through his trick

So long as death is thought to have won

The life game has not yet begun.

Oh we've slumbered e'er so long

And in our dreams we let him take us

So long he did not really wake us

Better the nightmare we're in

Than wake to face our sin

~ Richard Gardner

('sin' meaning the mistakes we have made and are making, adds the writer)