We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

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.

Do you know something? I've got this funny feeling fate arranged for you to enter my life for the express purpose of tormenting me.

He profits most who serves best.

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.

It is what the Taoists say: The way to do is to be.

Happiness is a thing of now.

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.

We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.