To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

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.

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.

I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.

I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction.

The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.