Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists and ham-fisted clowns. If you are on a list targeted by the CIA, you really have nothing to worry about. If however, you have a name similar to somebody on a list targeted by the CIA, then you are dead.

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.