I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

I think I'm a bit like a kind of shark, that if I stop swimming, I won't be able to breathe, something like that.

It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

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.