“I think fear keeps people in mundane lives. Fear of freedom, fear of loneliness; it's a powerful opium.”

“It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.'Because he got hurt?'No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.”

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

“Fear of death translates into a fear of living.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear. It is rather not letting your fear control your actions”

“But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.”

“...the Blessed Damozel essence of every dream and fairy story and legend and fear ...”