The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real

I think Hellblazer is quite unique. In a comic world dominated by American characters (nothing wrong with that per se) Constantine was unashamedly British. A certain kind of miserablist British

When you're alive and everything is going fine, why talk about things? Talking's for later, when talking's all there is that's left.

Sometimes I think that if I wasn't crazy... I'd go crazy.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

All we have, all we are, are clichés.

Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.

I'm not mad. I'm a writer.

Even when I'm about to die I like to sound interesting and special. It was just talk.

The erotic drive is the great energy that moves through all evolution.What about love? Where does that fit in?Love's simply the handmaiden of the great energy, and an excuse to write suspect poetry.

Rules? You don't even know what game we're playing, mister.

Sometimes it seems safer to have just enough God to get to heaven, but not so much that he radically alters our lives.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.

In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way.

It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.

Earlier in my career, fans weren't a big consideration for me.

Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.