Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

A man without hope is a man without fear.

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.

'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

No matter what happens in public—no matter what—don’t doubt that I love you and care about your welfare . . . as much as I am able.

If I had my way, I'd wear jewelry, a great pair of heels and nothing else.

No one's going to shoot at me.

Full effort is full victory.

We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.

Don't play safe. Cook outside of your comfort zone, otherwise you're just going to do the same things.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.