I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... These civilized people... they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve.
— He must have friends.
— Friends? Have you met this guy?
You wanna know how I got these scars? My father was... a drinker... and a fiend. And one night, he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that... not one bit. So, me watching... he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me and he says: "Why so serious?" He comes at me with the knife. "Why so serious?" He sticks the blade in my mouth. "Let's put a smile on that face." And... Why so serious?
Either you die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
— Today you get to say "I told you so."
— Today, I don't want to. But I did bloody tell you.
— A long time ago, I was in Burma... and my friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders... by bribing them with precious stones... but their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never met anyone who traded with him. One day, I saw a child playing with a ruby... the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.
— So why steal them?
— Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just wanna watch the world burn.
Does it depress you, commissioner... to know just how alone you really are?
How about a magic trick? I'm gonna make this pencil disappear. Ta-da! It's... It's gone.