We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

You are going to love the sports here. Snow skiing and water-skiing and rock climbing and all kinds of extreme sports. I give you full permission to hurl yourself off stuff.

It's not that girls are delusional, per se. It's just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something different.

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.

I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation to rest.

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

With a face like mine, I do better in print.

I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.