Alan Moore

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

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.'

The world will look up and shout 'Save us!'... And I'll whisper 'no.'

In my face, you can see the perfect symmetry of what we are... cold, logical and ruthless. We are more than human, we are so much less.

Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.' Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But doctor... I am Pagliacci.'

None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me!

The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite.

There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.

You have no idea. No idea at all. Chaos. A joke. This mission is an act of faith. I can see the earth, and there's not even a scratch!

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there’s no difference.

We're society's only protection.

Someone has to do it. Someone has to save the world.