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

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

“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.”

“Humans and their governments have effectively neutered the population to the point that they're just skinbags, mouth-breathers and pseudo-intellectuals repeating political, religious or academic rh...”

“It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.”

“In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an ...”

“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governm”

“How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.”

“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.”

“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”