Better to regin in Hell than serve in Heaven: John Milton`s Lost Paradise

Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell, Recive thy new possessor - one who brings

A mind not to be changed by place or time. 
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.                                                                         

...Here at least / We shall be free... we may region secure; and, in my choice,



To region is worth ambition, though in Hell: 
Better to regin in Hell than serve in Heaven

(Book I, 251-263)

Khan: [quoting from Melville's Moby Dick] To the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!










Star Trek II: Through Khan's Eyes