Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you’re writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader’s brain.
Don’t leave home without your sword – your intellect.
What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate – unlike most films.
Love doesn’t have a point. Love is the point.
Once a man has seen society’s black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn’t exist.
Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there’s life.
My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.
I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
I’m the king of the 20th century. I’m the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.
The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.
The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.
If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don’t see what the problem is with coming up with imaginative ways in which people can procreate.
I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.
How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?
You see, there’s the way things seemed and then there’s the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.
It’s only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.
Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?
Is it meaningless to apologize? Never.