Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of you are safe.

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.

You were born for a reason and with a specific purpose in mind. You don’t choose it, you discover it.

There is no real conflict between nationalism and globalism. On the contrary: It is to the extent that a nation becomes more global in its achievements that it becomes admirable.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Nobody is kind to only one person at once, but to many persons in one.

I don't like to use a microphone around my head while I'm teaching so I had to learn how to project from my stomach more.

I guess you're only as good as the waves.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

What is thy sentence then but speechless death.