When you're alive and everything is going fine, why talk about things? Talking's for later, when talking's all there is that's left.

It's always a long goddamn story. Every time you ask anyone anything really important, it's a long story.

Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.

I think Hellblazer is quite unique. In a comic world dominated by American characters (nothing wrong with that per se) Constantine was unashamedly British. A certain kind of miserablist British

All we have, all we are, are clichés.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real