“You know, Mandrake, I happen to believe in a life after this one. I know I’ll have to answer what I’ve done. I think I can.”

General Jack D Ripper, Dr Strangelove, or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

“Yeah, [Rorschach’s] crazy. So what?”

Grant “wallflower” Nebel, The Solute

“The Lord is our final comfort, but it’s such a solace having friends.”

Reverend Smith, Deadwood

“What I want to know is, out of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren’t?”
“My dear doctor, they’re all true.”
“Even the lies?”
“Especially the lies.”

Dr Bashir and Garak, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

“In the end? Nothing ever ends, Adrian.”

Jon “Dr Manhattan” Osterman, Watchmen

“I don’t trust those memories now.”
“Whether you trust them or not, they led you here.”

Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, The X-Files

“Hey, I’m just telling you the truth. You do whatever you want with it.”

Vic Mackey, The Shield

“I don’t expect him to be anything other than what he is.”

Peggy Olsen, Mad Men

“And if my thought-dreams / Could be seen / They’d probably put my head / In a guillotine / But it’s alright, Ma / It’s life and life only”

Bob Dylan, “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”

“I used to think about it more, but… you know, you reach a certain age, you know what you are.”

Rust Cohl, True Detective

“Do it or don’t. I got places to be.”

Marlo Stanfield, The Wire

“But… that’s what you do! That’s exactly what you do!”

Unnamed Character, wondermark! 

“Porn is the main way we know what gay people were doing, thinking, and feeling in the Sixties and Seventies. It was the only regular, mass, unfiltered artistic expression afforded to them. The filler before the sex showed bar-hopping, morning routines, and relationships from all different points of view and styles.”

Julius Kassendorf, The Solute (heavily paraphrased from memory)