There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype.

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Rorschach: Used to come here often, back when we were partners. Dreiberg: Oh. Uh, yeah... yeah, those were great times, Rorschach. Great times. Whatever happened to them? Rorschach: [exiting] You quit.

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.