Quirky, funny, happy-go-lucky dead inside Dexter. No longer Dexter with the knife, Dexter the Avenger. Not until next time.

And I was having too much fun to stop now.

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.

Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?

It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.

I think that's nice, and if I could have feelings at all I would have them for Deb.

For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

You came into my life like the rain to the parched desert!

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.

I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsurgency.

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!

Movies are not a growth business.

In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.

I like to work as little as possible to make the most money possible.

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.