
I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.

I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.

I don't like to think of my readership as 'fans,' a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life.

He can survive anywhere. Anytime. Surviving is what he does.

Magneto Was Right' - Quentin Quire

Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.

I didn't quit drinking. I stopped drinking shitty alcohol with assholes. And that, my friend, was the healthiest choice I've ever made.

I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star.
Illuminated woman am I.

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell.

It's not so much that history is simply cyclical, it seems to progress via recursive, repeated fractal patterns with minute variations.

Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods.

All is one in Darkseid. The mighty body is my church. When I command your surrender, I speak with three billion voices ...

It's mostly just you have to convince yourself that there's nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!

Einstein was wrong! IM the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!

This is the end of our sentence

Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.

Somewhere in our Darkest Nights we made up a story about a Man who will never let us down.

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

But a far more virulent strain survived. It's having sex with your thoughts. You'll give birth to increasingly more monstrous ideas.

He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.

It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself.

Superman loves everyone. He's like Jesus except he punches people.

The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.

Only nothing is impossible.

I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker

Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.

Of course I'm a threat. Why? Did you think for a moment that I wasn't? - Emma Frost

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can't piss upwards on people.

Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.

mmmmen stink! bossss stink! hungry

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

Sometimes it's only madness that makes us what we are.

The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.

I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.

The first light had cast the first shadow.

All it takes is one wrong turn. And there's always one wrong turn.

Who needs girls when you've got comics?

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

Reality and unreality have no clear distinction in our present circumstances.

Doomed planet.
Desperate scientists.
Last hope.
Kindly couple.

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another.

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.