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

“Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”