“Dark Helmet: I see your schwartz is as big as mine.”

“You opened your eyes -I saw my darkness live. I see through it down to the bed; there too it is mine and lives.”

Paul Celan (1920–1970) Romanian poet and translator

“Dark Helmet : So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.”

Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer

“Dark Helmet: What's the matter Colonel Sandurz… chicken?!”

Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer

“Dark Helmet [after everyone on the bridge announces that their last name is "Asshole."]: I knew it, I'm surrounded by Assholes.”

Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer

“This love was big enough for the both of us.
This love of yours was big enough to be frightened of.
It's deep and dark, like the water was,
The day I learned to swim.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“This thing of darkness I
Acknowledge mine.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

“Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the ranks of war,
And be your oriflamme today the helmet of Navarre.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician

“By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two
together in their sleep will defeat the darkness”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting "Forward, brave comrades!" you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author