Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you.

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.

There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.

I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I.

Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.