You need to understand my position: I’m a coward.

Hoggle: You need to understand my position: I’m a coward. And Jareth scares me.
Sarah: What kind of position is that?
Hoggle: No position! That’s my point. And you wouldn’t be so brave if you’d ever smelled the Bog of Eternal Stench. It’s, it’s…
Sarah: Is that all it does, it smells?
Hoggle: Oh, believe me, that’s enough. But the worst thing is, if you so much as put a foot in the Bog of Stench, you’ll smell bad for the rest of your life. It’ll never wash off.