Alan Moore, Watchmen
17 quotes
"It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet."
"It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again."
"Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?"
"Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends."
"I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline."
"In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past"
"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."
"I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography."
"People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't talk about them."
"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."
"I did it thirty-five minutes ago."
"Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly. Dry your eyes, and let's go home."
"The superman exists and he's American."
"All we ever see of stars are their old photographs."
"We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors."
"Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. It's true. She's aging more noticeably every day—while I am standing still. I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives."
"... and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout: 'Save us!'. And I'll look down and whisper: 'No."