Never despair. Never surrender.

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

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.

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world.

Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves. I apparently know some people who try to achieve this by logging off or going without their Twitter or Facebook for a limited period.