There's always been this feedback between comics and films. But I think that if you take that analogy too far, if you only see comic books in terms of films, then eventually the best we can end up with is films that don't move. It would make us a poor relation to the movie industry.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

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