You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is that you never stop loving someone. There's always a piece of them in your heart.

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.

I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.

When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.

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

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.