Scene: Bruce Wayne is in the shower and dreams about the killing of his parents and the birth of the Batman...
The time has come.
You know it in your soul.
For I am your soul...
You cannot escape me...
You are puny, you are small, you are nothing...
A hollow shell, a rusty trap that cannot hold me...
Smoldering, I burn you...
Burning you, I flare, hot and bright and fierce and beautiful.
You cannot stop me, not with wine or vows or the weight of age...
You cannot stop me but still you try...still you run...
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, and Lynn Varley