" 'Hope springs eternal in the human breast' - but who knows if you got an Alexander Pope where you come from. The point is, some spend their dying time trying to find a way to stave off what they've rightfully reaped, others are trying to catch one last episode of CSI: Haven. To each his own, I say." Keane answered jovially without feeling even one pang of anger. His rare bouts of true emotion were far valuable to waste them on the egghead after all.
"But I guess you come from some sort of peacenik earth, right? All sunshine and rays of happiness and prancing around in fields of flowers. ... Well, I don't. This here is nothing but a fairytale version of what I've seen on my own world. I don't judge them.
And, as a final piece of advice: If you want to insult me, you really have to try much harder, Brainiac. My training in Stahlstadt wasn't good for much, but those Germans got some cute sayings. 'Der Hund bellt, aber die Karawane zieht weiter.' * Yeah, I always liked that one.
But no need to sweat it. If you ever ever manage to truly offend me, you won't live long enough to realize it."
* 'The dog barks but the caravan goes on.'