We are not the policy department, except for those of us who are, " Jackaby revised.

Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.

I whispered across the bars to Jackaby as I rose, "Shall I tell them the truth?""Have you killed anyone?" he asked, quietly."No, of course not!""Then I can't imagine why you shouldn't.

To the attention of the New Fiddleham Police Department: You've got my middle-C, and I would like it back....Please return Jackaby's tuning fork. He's getting even more obnoxious than usual.

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.

The force is within you, force yourself.

I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides

Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.

A man is but his state of mind.

Y’know, it’s not that we need equality. Because everyone’s already equal, it’s just that a ton of idiots lost the memo. Indeed, everyone just needs to be TREATED like the equal they already are.

Talent is something you bloom, Instinct is something you polish.

I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

When you make people feel important, you're going to be ahead of the game.