“I don’t belong here. I’m a good person.”
“Are you? Say that you’re a bad person, then I won’t be so hard on you.”
“What do you mean by that? If I say I’m a ‘bad person’, then you’ll send me back … ?”
“Oh no, that’s not what I mean.”
“So the idea is I’m to stay down here … for how long?”
“Imagine a mountain a thousand kilometers high. Every ten thousand years a little bird comes and pecks at the mountain once with its beak and flies away. When that mountain has been pecked into dust your time here will only just have begun … ”

– from Bobby Gould in Hell by David Mamet.