بدن زنده و مرده، تعداد اجزای یکسانی دارند. از لحاظ ساختاری، تفاوت محسوسی ندارند. زندگی و مرگ، دو مفهوم انتزاعی غیرقابل اندازه گیری اند. چرا باید من ن… - Alan Moore

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?

... the most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favour.

In 1965, worked with Nite Owl bringing street gangs under control. Tackled the Big Figure together. Brought down Underboss together. Good team.

Until he got soft, like rest. Until he quit.

No staying power. None of them. Except Comedian. Met him in 1966. Forceful personality. Didn't care if people liked him. Uncompromising. Admired that.

Of us all, he understood most. About world. About people. About society and what's happening to it.

Things everyone knows in gut. Things everyone too scared to face, too polite to talk about. He understood.

Understood man's capacity for horrors and never quit. Saw the world's black underbelly and never surrendered. Once man has seen, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend it doesn't exist.

No matter who orders him to look the other way.

We do not do this thing because it is permitted. We do it because we have to.

We do it because we are compelled.