“I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.”

“Never despair. Never surrender.”

“Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”

“The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.”

“American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.”

“The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper 'No.”

“Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.”

“I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.”

“Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.”

“I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.”

“Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.”

“There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.”

“While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.”

“I love you, but why must you love the law? 'Tis plain for all to see that she's a whore...that virtuous persons have no need to woo; that villains screw, then studiously ignore.”

“Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.”

“Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”

“Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.”

“Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.”

“The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity.”

“We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.”

“To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.”

“If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.”

“Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain...The black sheep of the family.”

“Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.”

“Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?”

“They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.”

“A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?”

“The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.”

“Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.”

"I never think about how other people will respond to the way I dress."

"I think if you're going to get a tattoo, it should be significant, especially when it's all the way up your arms and your body."

"You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place."

"I think in high school there's so many cliques. You're never safe."

"I feel like all I've done lately is play really sexually-charged drug addicts. I don't know what's wrong with me. I've gotta go to Disneyland more and get more excitement."

"Election made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas - class, gender, race. I had realized that there were problems ."

"I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal."

"I think certain people are the way they are for certain reasons that we can't necessarily judge without knowing."

"I look at anything in life like as long as you do what you believe in, then it's going to work out. Because even if other people don't like what you're doing, you're happy because you did what you believed in."

"If i'm not with somebody who really excites or inspires me, then I'd rather be by myself."

"We're all born feeling perfect until somebody tells us we're not. So there's nothing I can teach my daughter. She already has all of it. The only thing I can do is protect what she already feels."

"Dressing up is all about reflecting how I feel."

"Nobody's going to fight for you as much as you fight for yourself."

"All I can do is share what I'm thinking - and learn from others."

"The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it."

"When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume."

"If people could walk around in suits of energy, that would be cool. Other than that, I don't think men should wear spandex."

"I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can't figure out how to make it again!"

"I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing."

"Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different."

"I want babies. Lots of babies. Of course!"