Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.

I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really, really drunk.

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.

Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly misses the most compelling part of Alan's writing, the way he develops and expresses ideas and character. Plot does not define story. Plot is the framework within which ideas are explored and personalities and relationships are unfolded.

That means that the universe is two-dimensional. Matter, energy, time, you, me and the floor are holograms.