People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

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.

Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.

I am chairman of the Pakistan People's Party.

The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.

Don't fret, Grannie. We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her

We need military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism.

The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

It's always nice to receive a compliment.