The collected wisdom of Darien Fawkes

The collected wisdom of Darien Fawkes

These quotes are excerpted from the original scripts for each episode. Some may have changed or been deleted during production, and cool quotes added during post-production might not appear here. In other words, your actual quotes may vary.

(note: these pages have been modified to include both script and episode quotes)

Season One

"A schmuck named Nietzsche once wrote: 'Anything that's done out of love is beyond good and evil.' Now, here's the thing: I love my job. So what does that make me? My feeling always was, good and evil could kiss my ass. But one night... well, they kinda got together... and bit me on it."

“You know how they say 'No good deed goes unpunished?' I was about to become a poster boy for that phrase.”

“You have to understand something about justice in retirement communities. You even sneeze at an old person, you're not gonna make bond. So given my crime, and that this was my third strike, you can guess the outcome.”

“Things just turned black, I couldn’t say a word. Didn’t have a thought.”

“Because of a bottleneck at the federal pen, they had to hold me a day at the court jail. Fortunately, the security there was a little less than lax.”

“Soon they’d be comparing me to the greats. Ed Coulters the Lizard, John Robbey the Cat, and from that night on I’d be Darien Fawkes the...”

“You know when they say 'When God wants to torture you he answers your prayers?' Well, I prayed for a miracle, and for my sins, he sent it.”

“Time flies when you’re having fun... or in a coma. I’d been unconscious for nearly three weeks. Just enough time for every muscle in my body to go on strike. But even though it was nice to be up and around, there are some days when you just shouldn’t get out of bed.... My brother knew about me and spiders, he knew how I’d react. But only he knew what was coming next.”

“You know how they say 'Good things come to those who wait?' Well, the bad things are always impatient. When I felt it the first time... I didn’t know what to think. I mean, it wasn’t a headache... exactly. It was as if something was knocking at the back door of my brain. Something that wanted in real bad. Staring into that mirror, I had the sudden horrible feeling that another person was looking back. A stranger who had stolen my face. What the hell was happening?”

“I could feel the quicksilver madness building in my brain, attacking my sanity like clockwork. I knew going invisible just made it worse. Without the counteragent, I only had days before the gland turned me back into a walking id. There was no choice. If I was gonna get payback for Kevin, I had to get the last part of him out of me.”

“No, I had to face facts. There was only one person I could look to now. And she was the last one who would want to see me.... They say 'Memory is a luxury only those who go straight can afford.' But for Casey O’Claire, I’d always empty my pockets.”

“It took all my will to put the demon back in it’s bottle. But even that couldn’t prepare me for what was coming next.”

“I had no idea who they were, but I can tell you this much. Their car was really cheap.”

“The attacks were unbearable now. My sanity was slipping like a brick on a Frisco hill. To go invisible might just push me over the edge. But I had to try. This wasn’t about me anymore. This was for my brother, my girl. My conscience was calling, and it was time to get de Fehrn.”

“Sound triggered alarms. The slightest noise would set them off. No, I guess invisibility alone wasn’t gonna cut it here.”

“What’s past, they say, is prologue. My partner found us a half hour later, just in time to take the credit. Whatever you can say about him, he did deserve that raise. Huisclov confessed to everything. In the end, the poor schmo felt so guilty, he’d of taken the rap for snatching the Lindbergh baby. As for de Fehrn, well, they never did find a body. All I know is the flames meant for him took the last of my brother’s project. With the lab destroyed, the Quicksilver process, all of Kevin’s work, was lost forever. And me, you ask… well, my brother’s legacy may have been out of sight, but it sure wasn’t out of my mind.”

“I believe in God, not cause I’m religious, but cause there’s gotta be a being with a bigger sense of irony than me. After all this, I still needed the counteragent. And there was only one person left I could turn to.”

-- Episode 1.01, "Pilot"

“Santayana once said that 'Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it'. Well, if that's true, then I'm screwed, 'cause here I am, repeating history all over again.... See, I was a thief. A good thief... okay, not so good. I got caught, tried, convicted, then I got a reprieve. Or so I thought. Turned out, I was better off in prison. But somewhere in this room is my ticket out of this mess.”

“Hey, you know the JFK quote about 'not asking what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country'? Well, I may not be a patriot, but I know a thing or two about gratitude.... Oh yeah, my country'd given me a lot, alright. And now it was time for a little payback.”

“What's the best thing about government service? For me, it's the health plan. You can get better, you can get worse, or you can just get with the program. This is the story of how Darien Fawkes got all three.”

“If I'd been shot, I wouldn't go after the guy who made the bullet. I'd want the guy who put it in me. Dr. Ike didn't count for squat. It was his Keeper Fogerty was after. I sure hoped I was right, 'cause the way my head was pounding, I was on the verge of becoming as whacked as Fogerty.”

"A cat named Kennedy once said, 'Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.' Those words have always had a profound effect on me... especially coming from a guy whose dad got rich off bootlegging."

"I was just asking for what every red-blooded American wants: White house. Picket fence. Freedom from a gland that turned me into a drooling psychopath every week. But I found out something important: When your country really wants you... it never asks."

"What's the best thing about government service? For me, it's the health plan."

-- Episode 1.02, "The Catevari"

"In his very first story, Sherlock Holmes met his match. Her name was Irene Adler, but as Dr. Watson points out, 'To Holmes, she was always The Woman.' The Woman who eluded him. The Woman who got away. For Sherlock, it was a mystery. For me... it was elementary."

"Being blackmailed by the government really gets a guy in touch with his emotions."

"To Darien Fawkes, Jessica Semplar would always be 'The Kid.' On the whole, it was nothing new. All the women in my life leave me. Difference is, to them I was a man... to her I was magic. How do you say good-bye to that?"

-- Episode 1.03, "Ralph"

"The Scottish philosopher Balfour said that destiny is the scapegoat we make responsible for our crimes. He was probably right, too, but I bet he was real dull at parties. I mean, who couldn't love the idea that everything we do is planned out in some great cosmic playbook? 'Cause if you're just a puppet in someone else's show, nothing's your fault, right? So why not smoke cigarettes, live on cheeseburgers, and sleep with your best friend's girl? When your number's up, it's up, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. This philosophy, known as determinism, was best summed up by Doris Day with the words 'que sera sera.' Now, I'm not sayin' she was right. And it's not like I'm a fan or anything. But if it was between Doris and that Scottish dude, I'd party with her any day."

“The Scottish philosopher Balfour said that 'Destiny is the scapegoat we make responsible for our crimes'. He was probably right, too. This philosophy, known as determinism, was best summed up by Doris Day with the words 'que sera sera'. Now, I'm not sayin' she was right. But if it was between Doris and that Scottish dude, I'd party with her any day.”

“Somebody once told me, 'If the stoplight turns red before you can cross, your life changes forever'. I'll buy that it changes, but just 'till the next morning. Then it's a whole new deal.”

-- Episode 1.04, "Tiresias"

"A Nobel prize-winning smart-ass named George Bernard Shaw once said, 'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'... Try telling that to someone who's been implanted with an artificial gland and subsequently enslaved by a government agency. If liberty means freedom, you can give me all the dread in the world."

“Sitting across from my mentor, Liz Morgan, was like driving a stolen car down memory lane. You're afraid if you linger, you'll get busted. It's better to focus on the present.”

“Most ex-cons just put the past behind them. I missed it. Man, I missed the thrill. I missed the freedom.... I'd been a thief for as long as I can remember. Back in junior high when most kids were joining the glee club, I was learning to drill safes and pick locks. And it was Liz who taught me. Yeah, she was good–one of the best. I'd always thought we made a good team. And then one day she just up an vanished. No explanation, no good-bye. Nothin'.”

“Little known law of the universe: when someone who owns a mansion hires you to steal something hires you to steal something, it can never end well. Now, this time it didn't even begin well.”

“See, that's the problem with getting caught... you don't have a choice.”

“All the Quicksilver I'd used during the heist was coming back to haunt me in a bad way. On top of that I was on the run from the Agency and on the outs with Liz. I turned to the only friends I had left.”

"Liz's motto for good-bye was always, 'Faster's better.' Like tearing off a Band-Aid. Of course, if the wound beneath isn't healed yet, nothing helps. Except time. And time leaves a big, nasty scar we call the past. It's the hardest prison to break free from, 'cause for most of your life you can't even see the walls."

-- Episode 1.05, "Liberty and Larceny"

“F. Scott Fitzgerald once said to Ernest Hemingway, 'Rich people are different from you and me'. To which Hemingway replied, 'Yeah, they got more money'. Which brings me to a personal favorite of mine, Willie Sutton, who said, 'The reason I rob banks is 'cause that's where the money is'.”

“Alright so, Hobbes fired his gun and I knocked the guy into the pool, which managed to fake out Lawson and scare the crap outta fifty tourists. Not bad for a days work.”

"We've all heard the maxim, 'Don't judge a book by its cover.' And I guess it's a valid nugget, but I prefer what another jailbird, Oscar Wilde, said on the subject. I don't remember the quote exactly, but it's basically that only morons don't judge by appearances, 'cause the real mystery in the world is in what's visible, not what's invisible."

-- Episode 1.06, "The Devil You Know"

"I think it was a Brit named Sir Robert Walpole who coined the phrase, 'All men have their price.' I happen to agree. Although my point of view on the matter has changed... I used to think my price would always be money... or diamonds... or gold. Imagine my surprise when I realized that my price has become a needle in the arm. Don't get me wrong -- I still have expensive taste: Your tax dollars paid millions for me to get that needle."

"You know in cartoons when they have the little angel on one shoulder and the little devil on the other, telling the guy what to do? These days I try, I really try, to listen to the angel. But with me, somehow the devil always wins anyway."

“I always believed in the saying, 'One good turn deserves another... I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine... I'll show you mine if you show me yours.' I kinda figured it like this: I release the prisoner they're blackmailing The Keeper with, and The Keeper gives me the formula for the counteragent they're blackmailing me with.”

"Just when you think you know all the payoffs that exist -- money, gold, jewels and a needle in the arm -- another one sneaks up and surprises you... just like people often do."

-- Episode 1.07, "Impetus"

“A nineteenth-century scientist, Thomas Huxley, once asked, 'If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, then how much knowledge does a person need before they're safe?'... My guess, a whole helluva lot.”

“Okay, this chick named Pandora was so damn curious she opened a box that unleashed pain, disease, and other fun stuff into the universe. This is the story of what happened when Darien Fawkes met Pandora.”

“I gotta question: 'If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, then how much knowledge does a person need before they're safe?'... My guess -- they'll never be safe again.”

"A nineteenth-century scientist, Thomas Huxley, once asked, 'If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, then how much knowledge does a person need before they're safe?'... The answer is, they'll never be safe again."

-- Episode 1.08, "The Value of Secrets"

"My mother, who never had much luck in the love department, used to justify her short marriage to my father by saying that if you can't love wisely, love foolishly. Because even dumb love is better than no love at all. That may be true on Saturday afternoon, but at two a.m. on a Monday, I'm inclined to disagree."

"When you spend a time around a guy who keeps yelling the sky is falling, it's a real shocker when a piece of it hits you on the head."

“Okay, when you spend time around a guy who keeps yelling the 'sky is falling ', it's a real shocker when a piece of it actually hits you on the head. But for once, Hobbes was right. The guy's a thief.”

"George Bernard Shaw observed that when your heart is broken, your boats are burned. Nothing matters any more. It's the end of happiness -- and the beginning of peace."

-- Episode 1.09, "Separation Anxiety"

"An English diplomat once said that 'The ends must justify the means.' These guys smuggle monkeys illegally so medical researchers can experiment on them legally. Whether those ends justify those means I'll leave to the activists... but let's just say keeping that chimp from being experimented on justifies the means... for me."

“So there is one thing that they don't teach you to watch out for when you get an invisibility gland installed in your head -- that you're invisible.”

"Shakespeare once wrote, 'The evil that men do lives after them.' That's never been more true than with Carver. But maybe the next line of Shakespeare's won't come true in this case -- the part about 'The good is oft interred with the bones.' Maybe Carver's good is now in Sarah's head. And maybe she can help see to it that his old research does some good."

-- Episode 1.10, "It Hurts When I Do This"

"A patriot poet, Walt Whitman, once sang, 'Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.' This from a guy who was in love with his own smell. He contained multitudes of stank. Walt was your classic loner, like J.D. Salinger, Spawn or me. Being the only Invisible Man will do it to you."

"Since most of my life is spent in a storm, I've grown to appreciate the calm that comes before."

“Mark Twain once said, 'Be good, and you will be lonely'. Now, what he didn't say is that lonely and alone aren't exactly the same thing. You see, I've been lonely ever since I became the Invisible Man, but, what I was about to find out in the worst way was...that I was never alone.”

“The day everything went to hell started like any other day. With a morning, sunshine, blue skies. Eh, since most of my life is spent in a storm, I've grown to appreciate the calm that comes before.”

"I know poetry doesn't suffer logic, but I think Walt Whitman was wrong when he said we 'contain multitudes.' 'Cause after what I've been through, I think our multitudes contain us."

"They say necessity is the mother of invention. And when the necessity is survival, she can be one mean mother. Of course, it's her child, invention, who's the real dangerous one."

“See, I'm one of those guys whose past always comes back to haunt him. But this time, I felt like I'd come back to haunt my past.”

“Mark Twain, who lived inside Samuel Clemens, said, 'Be good and you will be lonely.' Now, I've been good and I've been bad, but if I was really alone, I'd be dead now.”

“Although in a way, he brought this on himself, I still felt terrible about beatin' the crap out of my boss... I guess most people wouldn't understand that.

-- Episode 1.11, "The Other Invisible Man"

"A great 20th-century philosopher named Charles Schulz once had Linus observe that 'big sisters are the crabgrass on the lawn of life.' I guess the same could be said of big brothers."

“A great 20th-century philosopher named Charles Schulz once had Linus observe that 'Big sisters are the crabgrass on the lawn of life'. I guess the same could be said of big brothers... After our parents died, Kevin and I were raised by our aunt and uncle. I never had enough time to get to know my brother very well.”

“My problem is I had to tell lies... 'Cause no one would believe the truth.”

“Kevin's body was where Arnaud had said...so, I got to bury my brother again. Except it was different this time -- my anger had gone. I wasn't really sure what had replaced it. All I knew is I missed him like hell. A journalist named P.J. O'Rourke said that 'As we get older, the things which really matter are the dreadful things our parents said really mattered: Family and work and duty. Crap like that.... Yeah, well, I'm finding out he was right.”

"A journalist named P.J. O'Rourke said that as we get older, the things which really matter are the dreadful things our parents said really mattered: Family and work and duty. Crap like that.... I'm finding out he was right."

-- Episode 1.12, "Reunion"

"A 20th century photographer named Man Ray said that 'an original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction is motivated by necessity.'... My quicksilver gland was created by my country's desire to have an almost unstoppable secret weapon. Another country's attempt to reproduce it was necessitated by the fact that we had it. And they didn't. Kind of a Quicksilver gap, if you will."

“Will Rogers once said that 'To be a hero is about the shortest lived profession on Earth'. Robert Hobbes was a hero. He put his life on the line many times to save many people. Many of those times were to save my life. Bobby Hobbes died a hero. Thank you, Bobby.”

-- Episode 1.13, "Cat and Mouse"

"'One nation under God...invisible.' That's how I learned the Pledge as a kid. Now that I'm grown up and work for Uncle Sam, there's another saying that makes more sense. It's from the Bible, something about 'the blind leading the blind...'"

“Hey, you remember that song, She Blinded Me With Science? Yeah, well, science blinded me, then helped return my sight a month later. That song works for me on all new levels for me now.”

"An old Chinese proverb says, 'Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.' In other words, deal with your situation, your troubles, your gland in the brain. It's good advice, but after meeting Leila, I keep wondering... what's wrong with the darkness?"

-- Episode 1.14, "Beholder"

“There's an old English proverb that says, 'It's too late to close the barn door after the horse is already gone'. Yeah well, same's true when I've already entered.”

"George Bernard Shaw said, 'My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.'"

“Okay, I'm not a big believer in ghosts or anything supernatural for that matter. So I don't claim to be an expert at this.... Alright, there's this old Burmese proverb that says, 'A blind man is not afraid of ghosts.' Now, in other words, being invisible isn't gonna cut it by itself. I mean, to really scare this guy, he's gotta see something.”

"Oscar Wilde once said that sometimes it takes courage to give in to temptation.... I think I'm gonna work on getting my courage up."

-- Episode 1.15, "Ghost of a Chance"

"A lady once asked famous painter and momma's boy James Whistler if he thought genius was hereditary. His answer was basically, 'I don't know. Never had any kids.'"

“A Victorian author, John Oliver Hobbes once said that 'All men are the same. They always think that something they're gonna get is better than what they've got.' Now, I think a more recent philosopher, Bobby Hobbes, said it better...”

“You ever hear the term 'Honor amongst thieves?' That's a myth. Fear amongst thieves, maybe. Basic relationship is you stab my back, I'll stab yours. Now, if you look at it that way, Manny Merrick is a very honorable man.”

“A brilliant German guy named Schopenhauer said that 'With increased intelligence comes an increased capacity for pain.' So I guess if ignorance is bliss, then enlightenment is pure hell."

"There's an old saying: 'Every man is a genius until he opens his mouth.' I decided to save Hobbes the trouble... 'Nuff said."

-- Episode 1.16, "Flowers for Hobbes"

"The author of The Iliad -- a guy named Homer -- said that sleep is the twin of death."

"Like the Beatles said -- we get by with a little help from our friends."

-- Episode 1.17, "Per Chance To Dream"

"One of the downsides of hanging with Bobby Hobbes is you sort of develop a sense of paranoia.... On the other hand, like Henry Kissinger said, 'Even paranoid people have enemies.'"

“Somebody said, 'Opinions were made to be changed – how else can we get at the truth?'

-- Episode 1.18, "Frozen in Time"

"A rebel with a cause named Susan Sontag said that 'Society needs to have one illness which becomes identified with evil.' Our society has more than one. To that end, I quote Sly Stallone from his seminal film, Cobra: 'Crime is a disease. I'm the cure.'"

"Sometimes to get a cure, you need a little of what makes you sick in the first place."

"Three wisemen known as The Beastie Boys once shouted, 'It's time to get ill.'... Screw them."

"A dead guy named Samuel Johnson said that 'disease begins that equality which death completes.' I was about to become my brother's equal... but it seems disease had other plans for me."

"A little old lady named Mother Theresa said, 'The biggest disease today isn't leprosy or tuberculosis, but the feeling of being unwanted.' I don't have that condition. Everybody wants a piece of me for something."

“A little old lady named Mother Theresa said, 'The biggest disease today isn't leprosy or tuberculosis, but the feeling of being unwanted'. See, I don't have that condition. Everybody wants a piece of me for something. But the next time I catch up with Arnaud, I'm gonna give him exactly what he wants -- a piece of my mind.”

-- Episode 1.19, "Diseased"

“There's an old saying: curiosity killed the cat. Or was it the cat-burglar?”

"They say, 'He who sups with the Devil needs a long spoon.' I was making dinner reservations for two..."

"Francis Bacon, a guy who heard voices, said 'There is nothing that makes a man suspect more than to know little.' Right now I suspected everything."

“The Bible gives this sensible advice, 'Separate thyself from thine enemies, and take heed of thy friends.' It's easy enough... if you know how to tell the two apart.”

“The Agency had put up the biggest stonewall outside of China. Yeah, so, I figured if they wouldn't talk, the archives would.”

“Tennessee Williams said, 'We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.' Un-huh. Well, maybe that's why instead of being dressed to kill she was dressed like an armored tank.”

"Thoreau said that 'we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.' That's why paranoia can't protect you. 'Cause no matter how much you think they're out to get you... you have no idea."

-- Episode 1.20, "The Lesser Evil"

"Greek mythology says that whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. I'd never been sure whether 'mad' meant crazy or angry. Either way, the gods were working on me pretty good right now."

“The Official decided he wanted me to stay away from the rest of them... 'Arouse less suspicion' is how he put it. So 'V.I.P.' meant the red carpet treatment for them and Very Inconsequential Person for me.”

"As Kenny Loggins once said, 'I'm in the danger zone"

"Okay, you know that speech in Hamlet where the guy says 'neither a borrower nor a lender be and to thine own self be true?' See, I was neither a borrower nor a lender... I was a theif, and I hadn't been true to myself in a long, long time"

"You know that story about the goose that laid those golden eggs, yeah, well, I'd just found her and I was gonna squeeze her until she was all egged out"

“Better the Arnaud you know, than the devil you don't.”

-- Episode 1.21, "Money for Nothing," Part 1

A lawyer named Francis Bacon said that 'a man who studies revenge keeps his own wounds green'. Yeah, well, sure, Arnaud messed up my life, but I almost messed it up worse by going after him. Lesson learned"

-- Episode 1.22, "Money for Nothing," Part 2

"I've learned a lotta things since I started working with Bobby Hobbes. The names of all the most popular anti-depressants for starters. On the other hand, I've learned some useful things, too. Like never underestimate the enemy. But as Joseph Heller once wrote, 'The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed. No matter which side he's on.'"

"Yeah, I've learned a lot of things since I started working with Bobby Hobbes, like never underestimate the enemy, but as Joseph Heller once wrote, 'the enemy is anybody who's gonna get you killed, no matter what side they're on.'"

-- Episode 1.23, "It's a Small World"

Season Two

“Well, these are the facts about how two legends met face to face, many moons ago...”

"A bad boy, named Salman Rushdie, once wrote that 'sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts'."

"A legend named JFK once observed that 'the enemy of truth is not the deliberate lie, but the unrealistic myth.'"

"George Orwell said that 'myths which are believed in, tend to become true.' Now, I've never been big on belief, but I believe in something now. That a big chunk of myth is locked inside my head. I figure that makes me about two percent myth, myself. Two percent of everything people disregard, disbelieve and secretly hope is real."

"You know how they say 'all good things must come to an end'? Yeah, well, the bad things just tend to get worse"

-- Episode 2.01, "Legends"

"A babe named Princess Diana once said that if men had to have babies, they would only have one. Truer words were never spoken."

"Woody Allen said it best when he said, 'don't knock it, it's sex with someone you love' "

"When I was a kid my aunt sent me to summer camp. Camp Nimrod or something like that. Their motto was, 'There's nothing we can't do.' This place's motto looked more like 'Be all that you can be.'"

"Last time I got put away, they used DNA evidence against me. I cursed the day it was ever invented. Never thought I'd change my mind on that one... I just wish it were a little less digusting to acquire."

"The poet Kahill Gibran once wrote, 'Your children are not your children. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they do not belong to you.'"

-- Episode 2.02, "The Camp"

"A downtown guy named Billy Joel once wrote: 'We all have a face we hide away forever, and we take it out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.' He called it 'The Stranger.' Which pretty much sums up the guy we're looking for."

"The Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan once wrote, 'Things are seldom what they seem: Skim milk masquerades as cream.' He was then promptly beaten up by every kid in the school yard.... The point is -- we probably learned more about Eberts when he was Arnaud, than we ever would from Eberts himself."

-- Episode 2.03, "The Importance of Being Eberts"

"A philosopher named Wittegenstein once observed that, 'someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.' Yeah well, our new Agent, Alex Monroe, knew too much. Way too much. Which meant she was gonna lie about practically everything"

"When God created Adam, He put him in the most perfect place on Earth. I hope this Adam wakes up to a world like that."

-- Episode 2.04, "Johnny Apocalypse"

"The U.S. Postal Service promises that 'neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays their couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,' but gunfire? I found that tends to bring most routines to a screeching halt"

“The poet William Blake once said that 'When the doors of perception are finally cleansed...' I'm sorry, did I say that out loud?”

"The poet William Blake once said that when the doors of perception are finally cleansed, you'll see things as they truly are. Maybe that's what Hobbes is afraid of."

-- Episode 2.05, "Going Postal"

"Thomas Mann said that, 'a man's dying is more of the survivor's affair than his own.' Now, my version of that would go great on a T-shirt. 'My brother was murdered, and all I got was this lousy gland'."

"Leonardo DaVinci said that 'our life is made by the death of others'. That might sound harsh, but I've learned it's true. Twice."

-- Episode 2.06, "Brother's Keeper"

"Shakespeare wrote something like,"the thief doth feareth that eacheth bush is a police officer.' Yeah well, I tend to think that each bush is a crazy guy out to kill me."

"Alfred Hitchcock once said that, 'the terror isn't in the bang, but in the anticipation of it.' Well, I gotta tell ya, I haven't been this nervous about what I was about to see in a long time."

"This Russian writer, Nedezden Mendelson said that, 'the first way to avoid responsibility is not to recollect at all.' I think deep in his mind, that's what Gaither was doing"

-- Episode 2.07, "Insensate"

"An Englishman named Samuel Butler once said that, 'once a thief's committed beyond a cerain point, he shouldn't worry about it anymore. Thieving is God's message to him, try and be a good thief.' Well, wonder if that applies to terrorists?"

"You know that saying, 'you can't go home again?' I don't know what they're talking about. I mean, c'mon. The accomodations are great, and you can't beat the company."

"Okay, you know how in every sci-fi movie invovling time travel, it's very important for the guy traveling back in time not to run into his past self. That would mean he would essentially implode, or something. That's kinda how it is with the past me, and the present me."

-- Episode 2.08, "Den of Thieves"

"Okay, you know that saying 'honesty is the best policy?' Well, let's just say some people don't appreciate the benefits."

"The most powerful motivational word in the English language is 'no.' Especially, when it comes from the Official."

"Here's a story for you... Kid named Jack climbs the beanstalk, he gets to the top; finds the goose that lays the golden eggs. Well, long story short, Jack steals the goose and lives happily ever after. Now, like my friend Charlie, here, Jack had the best of intentions. He used the golden eggs to support his mother, who was poor and starving, but lets not kid ourselves, okay... Jack is not a good role model."

"Someone once said, 'wisdom comes through suffering'. Thanks to Charlie Jay., I may be the smartest man on Earth."

-- Episode 2.09, "Bad Chi"

"An ancient Greek playwrite named Sophocles once said that, 'there's nothing more demoralizing than money.' He was almost right. It's actually the lack of money that actually sucks"

-- Episode 2.10, "Sense of Community"

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Opening Voice Over:

"Every hero needs a nemesis." [cut to Aranud montage]

"Well, as if Aranud wasn't enough to deal with." [cut to Jared Stark montage]

-- Episode 2.11, "Flash to Bang"

"There's an old Yiddish proverb about boredom that says, 'let it be worse, so long as it's change.' Well, the Department of Weights and Measures makes the Health and Human Services look like a party at Eminem's house."

"Francis Bacon said that, 'there's a superstition in avoiding superstition.' Now, if that's the case, I'm extremely superstitious because I don't believe in anything superstitious. Especially ghosts"

"Samuel Taylor Cooleridge wrote that, 'a mother's a mother still, the holiest thing alive'. I never really understood that quote until now, but I think what it means is, even a mother who's gone is still the holiest thing alive. Amen."

-- Episode 2.12, "Immaterial Girl"

"Composers of traditional Japanese music believe that 'true experience is found not only in the notes, but in the silence between them.. In other words, know when to shut up."

"Celebrity scientist Sir Isaac Newton said, 'if I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants,' Because in science, every discovery is built on the one before it. Now me, I ain't no scientist, but here's my take on progress: slow down. Take it from me, great new ideas aint always so great. I mean, when it comes to giants, I think we oughta worry more about a giant boot that can come down and squish us... like a bug."

-- Episode 2.13, "Germ Theory"

"Margaret Thatcher once observed that, 'it is the female of the species that defends when attacked.' Alex Monroe personified that statement."

"Alex had done a lot of brave things in her career; probably do a lot more. Nothing would ever top what she was doing right now."

-- Episode 2.14, "The Choice"

"This Congresswoman from way back named Shirley Chisolm said that, 'when morality comes up against profit, it's seldom that morality wins.' There's never been a better example of that than our beloved Official."

"Dasvadanya!"

"Voltaire once said that 'a great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.' But, uh, Claire was way beyond that..."

"'Mankind is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.' Mark Twain."

-- Episode 2.15, "The Three Phases of Claire"

"Leo Tolstoy, he once observed that 'happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,' which means my family is about as unique as it gets. What little was left of it."

"I think it was some French scholar that observed that 'all heroism is due to lack of reflection.' My bad luck, I had to catch Hobbes in hero mode. What the hell, he'll have time to reflect at my funeral."

“George Gobel once observed that he spent his life feeling like the whole world was in tuxedos and he was stuck wearing brown shoes. Yeah, well, that's pretty much my reaction watching this group run computers. On the other hand, I doubt any of them could pick a 12 tumble lock while holding a maglite in their mouth.”

-- Episode 2.16, "Father Figure"

“The philosopher Edmund Burke once said, ‘when bad men combine, good men must associate.’ Now, the Agency isn't exactly the Justice League, but we can hang pretty tight when we have to. The SWRB... definitely bad men. Just think of them as the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.”

-- Episode 2.17, "Exposed"

"Salvador Dali once said that, 'the only difference between him and a mad man is that -- he wasn’t mad.' Well, unfortunately for me, sometimes even that distinction wasn’t quite so clear."

“It suddenly dawned on me that it's been almost two years since I've been able to enjoy the, ah, finer literary works in a color other than Quicksilver vision...”

“Well, this is of course the part where I Quicksilver, sneak into The Official's office, and spy on my fellow spies. Unfortunately, I think I'm gonna haveta go, ah, a little more low tech this time.”

“William Shakespeare once said that 'A coward dies a thousand deaths. A hero dies but one.' Yeah, 'course what Bill was really trying to say was either way, you lose.”

“Yeah, it did feel good to be back, although it bugged me that Warring had gotten away scott free. But like George Bernard Shaw said, 'As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.' On the other hand, just because I've accepted what I am doesn't mean I haveta like it.”

-- Episode 2.18, "Mere Mortals"

"An author named Jonathan Swift once wrote that 'vision is the art of seeing things invisible.' Well, as a guy who’s seen his share of invisible things, I couldn’t agree more. The difference is when it happens to me... it usually spells trouble."

-- Episode 2.19, "Invisible Woman"

"George Bernard Shaw said that… 'we have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.' Well, I’m startin’ to think maybe we should go back the other way."

-- Episode 2.20, "Possessed"

“I used to get in fights as a kid -- a lot -- and my Mom always gave me the same advice. Turn my enemies into friends. I think she meant friends with me, not friends with each other...”

-- Episode 2.21, "Enemy of my Enemy"

"In his book The Rebel Albert Camus said that, 'real geneosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.' Well, what better time to invest in my future than right now?"

"Cole Porter once said, 'that work is more fun than fun,' which I always thought was the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I mean, come on, you don't work for it, it ain't any fun? Please. That makes about as much sense as walking away from free money."

"Ray Bradbury said, 'I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.' Well, I figure it was time I took that kind of control."

-- Episode 2.22, "The New Stuff"

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