Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He's not superhuman. He's not super. So therefore he can't be a superhero.

My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.

I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.

And so I think I got married because I thought that a ring would lock that love in forever, because it's very scary when it is just your feelings holding you together

I don't mean to pry, but saving people is my calling. Yours vigilantly, The Masked Avenger

I'd sneer and tell him he's got the cerebral finesse of an amoeba and delight in his squint of confusion.

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so it was, I think, with Dryden.

Cherish every second you have. Hold the ones you love close to you. Sing, even when you don’t know the words to the song. Smile when the sun shines on your face. Dance in the rain.

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

You can’t feel lonely if there’s no one else around.-Yamaguchi Kenji (Yamaken)

To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

I've learned that it's important to spend some time in a relationship with yourself and not being defined by your partner.