Ambitions and the blessed simplicities of action don’t always quarter together in comfort.

Regina Corrado, Ted Mann, Deadwood, s03e03

Consider also:

  1. “Has it occurred to you that science is magic we don’t understand yet?”
  2. “By lantern light I scrawl a hoary poem on wrinkled toad skin!”
  3. “I ain’t pissed off, I’m in fucking wonderment. I’m waitin’ to be kept happy by the next fuckin’ fairy tale.”
  4. O coffee! By the mighty Name of Power do I invoke thee, consecrating thee to the Service of the Magic of Light.
  5. “The supreme and absolute injunction, the crux of your knightly oath, is that you lay your lance in rest to the glory of your Lady, the Queen of the Stars, Nuit. Your knighthood depends upon your refusal to fight in any lesser cause.”