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.

Sometimes I think that if I wasn't crazy... I'd go crazy.

I'm not mad. I'm a writer.

Even when I'm about to die I like to sound interesting and special. It was just talk.

All we have, all we are, are clichés.

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