Irish Quotes

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.

It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.

Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment.

As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

How success changes the opinion of men!

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.