"Vigilante justice does not know the same bounds as legal justice."

"Looking defenseless and being defenseless were two very different things in Dark Space, and mistaking the one for the other could make you dead."

"Is this what you want Lemon, to breath life into another human being, just to spend the rest of your days slowly sucking it out of them?"

"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."

"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do."

"I’ve been around long enough to know how ignorant I am."

"Things get tricky if you interfere. When you interfere with the world, the world interferes with you."

"The dead get deader, you know, as every trace of their existence is expunged."

"Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know."

"Good advice was good advice. No matter how unlikely its source."

“Hell is other people.”

"...they'd decided living like there's no future would only guarantee it."

"I have never believed in gods, in universal good or absolute evil. I have only ever believed that there is what works and what doesn't. All the rest is smoke and mirrors, trickery to manipulate grunts like me."

"...living in the past was just another way of dying in the present."

"You have no idea how exhausting it is being crazy."

"If you only do one thing all day long, you can get a surprising amount of that thing done."

"Reincarnation was pointless because, with no knowlege of your past lives, you may as well never have lived them in the first place."

Ed: That's what I've been thinking

"I guess it comes down to a simple choice really. Get busy living, or get busy dying."

"You know the funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook."

"One persons free is simply another persons bill."

"...God never lets the devil steal the show."

"99 percent of the people in this world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contaigon."

"If you peered close enough, everything was nothing. And if you pulled back enough, nothing somehow became everything."

"It's just that sometimes you see so far forward that you lack peripheral vision."

"Sometimes, the greatest difference between being a boy and being a man is restraint."

"...because when you got right down to it, humans were still just curious monkeys. They still had to poke everything they found with a stick to see what it did."

Technically we are just curious apes. -- Ed.

"Say what you will about organized crime, at least it's organized."

"You don't know where you're vulnerable, until you fail."

“There are no happy endings because nothing ever ends.”

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."

"Every organization needs a designated asshole. That is my gift to the Killjoy collective. The asshole may not be liked, but he will always be necessary, because he does what's needed."

"You never get anywhere by arguing religion with a priest."

"Fortunately when you spend a lot of time in space, you learn how to shit in a bag."

"Travel really can upset ones routines. But then, isn't that rather the point?"

"Sometimes I wish other people would just tell me how to think. Tell me what to believe."

"It seemed better that there be no God than a God that I could only hate."

"That's all we really are in this universe. Monkeys with a space program."

Technically we are apes with a space program. -- Ed.

"It was the funny business you didn't expect that always got you in the end."

"Isn't that just the question? Having built something significantly smarter than myself, how could I possibly anticipate its evolution?"

"When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive."

"Vengeance doesn't relieve you of pain like you think it should. Instead it twists your heart with bitterness."

"Sounding confident about a thing doesn't make it true."

"Humanty had gone to the stars. That hadn't eradicated poverty, overpopulation and sloth."

"The odds of there being at least one form of intellegent life outside Earth somewhere in the observable universe, are higher than your odds of winning the lottery."

"In science, we want to get the same results many times, in order to believe them."

"You have to know what skeletons are in peoples closets before you can use them against them "

"Bibles have a bad effect on weak-minded people. And churches act like echo chambers on psychotics."

"We find out the truth because we don't have any choice. Nothing else works, empirically"

"So he would be forced to survive. Because this hypocritical society insisted at this level that life was sacred."

"The absence of noise and people seemed less unnerving out in the countryside."