“The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.”

“Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you…”

“It's all over," he said to Cooke. "You've got to come clean. The notes show us the story is wrong. We know it. We can show you point by point how you concocted it.”

“I cannot believe you harbor any illusions about the barbarians being nature’s noblemen. I soon lost mine. They were every bit as ruthless. They were simply less efficient.”

“When someone covets something they desire and lust over it. Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem…”

“The point is […] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.”

“I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.”

“The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.”

“I have so much of desire that desire itself is my fulfillment.”

“You must not give way to desires which you don't believe in. I know what you desire. You should, however, either be capable of renouncing these desires or feel wholly justified in having them. Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come. But at present you alternate between desire and renunciation and are afraid all the time. All that must be overcome.”