When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they're probably absolutely literally correct.

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.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

Leadership moves people doing things they are not paid for yet.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I am in my street life.

I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.

The message of love is self-acceptance in the smaller sense and self-acceptance in the large sense - the Self as eternity.

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.

By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift?

I used to always have a pretty high, little clear voice, but as I got older, I got a little cornbread in it.