I think I'm a bit like a kind of shark, that if I stop swimming, I won't be able to breathe, something like that.

No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

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

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

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

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

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

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

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

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

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

Agony is not something that happens to you.To agonize is a choice.

While I do believe we are loved even when we do not make the sacrifices we could make, I think part of this life is learning to love what we are capable of.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

People can and do change.

The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

What has dawned on me is that focusing on the "finite planet" frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.

I do think, you know, you don't have to have 30 billion, but you have a certain level of freedom.

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.