Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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LUCAN Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' ... DAVE GIBBONS I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,&... ZACK SNYDER People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.... 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GELB I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting a... MICHAEL J. FOX I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes... MICHAEL J. FOX As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s... MICHAEL J. FOX There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion MICHAEL J. TUCKER Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and... MICHAEL J. COHEN Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying a... MICHAEL J. FOX [T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its valu... MICHAEL J. SANDEL First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the prin... MICHAEL J. SANDEL This is heavy, Doc. MICHAEL J. FOX In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix... MICHAEL J. COHEN The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintel... MICHAEL J. BEHE The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. MICHAEL J. FOX What other people think about me is not my business. MICHAEL J. FOX I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's j... MICHAEL J. FOX If you're lucky, in some point in the future when you're in need of guidance or perhaps moral suppor... MICHAEL J. FOX Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. MICHAEL J. FOX You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan... MICHAEL J. FOX The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl... J. MICHAEL BREWER I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look a... MICHAEL J. FOX Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers an... MICHAEL J. FOX Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ... MICHAEL J. BEHE The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula... MICHAEL J. BEHE Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc... MICHAEL J. BEHE The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or... MICHAEL J. BEHE Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ... MICHAEL J. BEHE You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had... MICHAEL J. FOX Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm. “Yes, I see it, but—” �... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN How are you speaking?” Gryndal asked. “With my mouth,” she said. “Does everyone play th... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Remember, it’s easier to believe an outlandish lie confirming what you suspect than the most obvio... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN What length will a mother go to on behalf of her child? How long is time? What is the depth of love?... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Strange game, this stating the obvious,” Suri said, shaking her head. She got up and joined Minna ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Why are you here?” “Oh— I came to tell the chieftain we’re going to die.” The girl sa... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Caught early enough, the waking forest had no time to disguise itself into something mundane. This w... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Sunlight had a way of showing the realities that shadows born of firelight hid. The MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN