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Without my face, nobody knows. Nobody knows who I am.

God is in the rain.

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world ...

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.

There never was a Jack the Ripper. Mary Kelly was just an unusually determined suicide. Why don't we leave it there.

Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition ...

machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time

If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?

I have so very much. I have so very little.

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

In heaven's name be a man, sir! Your pitiful whining sickens me!

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

I love films that are made with almost no budget.

I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.

Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

Everybody has their story to tell.

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him ... [from Macbeth]

Information is the only thing that can be lost in an imperishable universe. Mind is the only thing that truly dies.

Uglier than death backin' outta the outhouse readin' mad magazine and crazy as a football bat.

If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.

Places don't stay where you left them. You go back there, anywhere, and even if it looks exactly how it did before, it's somewhere else.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?

Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike ... except in California.

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain ... The black sheep of the family.

I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.

Is it meaningless to apologize?

Never.

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Everything's possible
Nothing is true.

Star light, star bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

I still can't believe it ... him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.

IF YOU HURT INSIDE, GET CERTIFIED, AND IF LIFE SHOULD TREAT YOU BAD ...
DON'T GET EE-EE-EVEN, GET MAD!

Affected most, they understand the least...

Books require titles; reading them doesn't

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.

I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

man should be his own ideal and champion, however long it takes him to arrive there.

Academic stress-related pre-birth suicides

It doesn't matter how "successful" each of us is in life. We're all doomed to die. Why can't anyone else see that?

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.

The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity.

Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely ...

War is a perversion of sex.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

Give me a platform of ideas and harmonies on which to gesture and unfurl my wings. Give me a place to stand.

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

You're my only remaining link to the world

The superman exists and he's American.

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.

Love doesn't have a point. Love is the point.

Who watches the watchmen?

They are bright and exciting. Like America. Like its women.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction:
Simply to participate.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

Life isn't divided into genres

If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.

I imagine that existential dread probably ought to get a devil. A devil of post-colonial angst. A devil of complicated grief.

If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice.

Invoke not reason. In the end it is too small a deity.

inverted memories of this immediate revelation, memories that in some puzzling fashion one might have before their subject had occurred. The

All culture must have arisen from cult.

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.

Let me show you firmness of my belief.

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.

I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.

Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

While the revolution will be certainly televised, it strikes me that there is a strong possibility that the revolution will also be crowd-funded.

The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

Behind gods, ghosts, and people squats the state, which asserts total access to both public and private space: the

You see, Evey, all the world's a stage. And everything else ...
... is vaudeville.

Isn't it strange how life turns into melodrama?

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.