You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.

My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...'' He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant.

People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.

You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.

I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispencing justice fairly, and only setting nightmares to rip out the winds of the evil and the wicked. Or just anybody that I don't like.

All bookshelves are magical.