“"Someday," I told Jan, "when they demonstrate that the world has four dimensions instead of just three, a man will be able to go for a walk and just disappear. No burial, no tears, no illusions, no heaven or hell. People will be sitting around and they'll say, 'What happened to George?' And somebody will say, 'Well, I don't know. He said he was going out for a pack of cigarettes.”

The Last Lecture (2008)
Variant: And he put his arm around my shoulders and we went for a little walk and he said, Randy, it’s such a shame that people perceive you as so arrogant. Because it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish in life. What a hell of a way to word “you’re being a jerk.” [laughter] Right? He doesn’t say you’re a jerk. He says people are perceiving you this way and he says the downside is it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish.

Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Hovind theory

Talking to reporters about whether President Bush knows about equipment inadequacies in Iraq http://www.defenselink.mil/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=1985 <br class="br">2000s

When questioned as to the future of jazz, as quoted in Jet magazine (31 March 1960), p. 30

Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

Democratic National Candidates Debate, Goffstown, New Hampshire (22 January 2004) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39875-2004Jan22?language=printer.

Lyra, in Ch. 1 : The Decanter of Tokay
His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995)

Source: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 20, “Liz: Bereavement Counselling” (p. 215)

William Leith (January 25, 2003) "Dancing in the Dark: He was a baby when he got his first showbiz break in the 1940s, and then firmly schooled in the song-and-dance tradition. So how did Christopher Walken end up as a master of evil?", The Guardian.