I wish I could say I had any idea what I was doing when I designed characters. I just take things I like and make my version of it.

But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.

Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure...but now you've just gone nuts!

With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. "It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves.

Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons.

I don't do anything for Halloween. I carry Halloween inside of me.

Hellboy was entirely the comic I wish someone much more talented than I was doing, because I would have been a huge fan of that comic. But nobody was doing it, so it fell to me to do it.

No rain but thunder, and the sound of giants.

Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.

Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble.

I did not say it was true, only that I believe it.

I am trying to get lost in me.To dream, to feel, to see, to be.

Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you'll find something that is.

The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.

One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony. I keep thinking how much harder it would be to carry concealed weapons.

That people will object very much to seeing a predator killing its prey, and yet, in the news, will accept showing shots of people shooting one another.

I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.

There is nobody else out there that I would put ahead of Joe Greene. By far the best Steeler of all time.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.