Jeffrey Sinclair quotes from Babylon 5

Garibaldi

Think they'll ever find that transmitter you slipped G'Kar?

Sinclair

No. because there isn't one.

Garibaldi

There isn't? Wait--

Sinclair

I lied. I figured if there were a transmitter, sooner or later they'd find it and remove it. But if I just told them there was, they'd keep looking. Indefinitely.

Garibaldi

Commander, do you have any idea of the tests they'll put him through, the things they'll do to him trying to find a transmitter that's not there?

Sinclair

Yes.

Delenn

There is something I've been wondering. Why Babylon 5? If the prior four stations were lost or destroyed, why build another?

Sinclair

Plain old human stubbornness, I guess. When something we value is destroyed, we rebuild it. If it's destroyed again, we rebuild it again. And again, and again, and...again, until it stays. That, as our poet Tennyson once said, is the goal: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Delenn

A poet?

Sinclair

Someone who writes poems. [She gives him a confused look.] A poem. A story in meter or rhyme.

Delenn

[smiling] Ah! "There once was a man from Nantucket."

Sinclair

[chuckles] You've been talking to Garibaldi again, haven't you?

Delenn

Yes. How did you know?

Sinclair

[smiling] Oh, just a wild guess.