Babylon 5, Season 5: The Wheel of Fire

Londo Mollari:
He [a Narn] seems very glad to see you.

G'Kar:
Yes, but we weren't gone that long. Less than a month.

Londo Mollari:
Well, there you have the key to your popularity: your absence. Go away for a month and they bow. Go away for six months and they'll tear the place apart when you come back. Perhaps you should go away and never come back again. Then your popularity will be so overwhelming it would blacken the stars.

G'Kar:
Mollari-

Londo Mollari:
I have always said this about you: nothing so improves your company like the lack of it. ... Perhaps you can make some money from this: ten credits for you not to be there for an hour, a hundred credits for you not to be there for the day. And for you not to be there for the rest of your life, well, they could never afford it.