I don't need a speech. I have all I need to say right up here. He pointed at his head in confidence.

Few men want to achieve greatness for humanity, thought Jeffrey. What better person is there to work for?

We need to be able to control - erm, guide the masses that can't help control themselves.

Never. I promise you this: they will stay together. They will be safe. My children will be accompanying them to the same home.

They're going to get the death penalty. They'll be strung up and made to be laughed at out in the streets and made examples of!

And which one of you wimpy men will be doing the killing?

I should have been the King of Earth, or at least that's what my memory tells me...

The materials are mostly from living beings - living human beings. They need to be alive to extract the necessary materials.

You knew those people could be temperamental.

God damn, do I have to be y'all's babysitter?

I want you to ask yourself the entire time before you meet me, 'Is this really what I want?

Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father.

Be Lion in drawing a Line

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

My daughter, I can't give up because she's watching and she's here and she's waiting for me to be an example. So, between her, myself, and my will, and me pushing myself, that's my inspiration.

I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.

I think every great show has that kind of romance that people just kind of yearn for.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.

To touch somebody’s heart with design.

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.