You can’t buy that kind of empowerment. To just know that as far as you are aware, you have not got a price; that there is not an amount of money large enough to make you compromise even a tiny bit of principle that, as it turned out, would make no practical difference anyway. I’d advise everyone to do it, otherwise you’re going to end up mastered by money and that’s not a thing you want ruling your life.

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.

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

You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.