We don’t want to be the conquistadors. We want to be Charles Darwin.

Celui qui n'évolue pas disparaît.

I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think i behaved in a paltry manner (Charles Darwin)

I came to understand that a German nudist, in 1984, loved little more than to work on his or her tan.

I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It's enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil.

Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in.