"That's insipid sentimentality speaking and nothing more."

He stormed away from her and went back to where he had his scanners, and immediately starting scanning himself, started looking at scans of his own brain.

"I'm free of emotion--finally free of it--from its complications, from its confusion, free from pain..."

He was getting increasingly irritated, and eventually lost his temper, smashing a console, tears still streaming down his face.

"I won't allow it to come back. I won't. I'm better this way! I am a Brainiac!"