Magic is the cheat codes for the world.
He could be a wise man of the woods, spoken of in whispers, his words and thoughts becoming spooky action at a distance in the world beyond. A secret wizard of the future.
But I am not a monster because I kill. Killing is easy. I am a monster because I accept the hard choices. (Frank Moses)
Bloody Wolf Blitzer intoning that a weather bomb is going to detonate over America because the planet hates humans and time is a flat circle.
Another day down the mines of our lives. We drink 'til we stink and smoke 'til we choke because that's how we get things done, you and me. Spending our lives making things and making things out of our...
All the time, I was telling myself, just enjoy it for what it is, don’t be weird, don’t get all screwed up over something it isn’t. The usual mantra when you’re with someone who you’re not really with...
An environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world. The present is always invisible because it’s en...
When I got the tattoo, I knew I was drawing a crooked line between myself and society.
We use the language of magic and ghosts and ritual to parse science and technology because science and technology always was, and still is, a process of magic and ghosts and ritual. Same thing. The mi...
There are no good futures. There’s nothing to head towards but more garish, unsustainable carnival acts.
The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to...
Post-modernism, which has probably lasted longer than modernism, is the process of interrogating the aesthetic discourse. Disrupting the narrative. Modernism says that things can be right. Post-modern...
Magic is the cheat codes for the world. Sending a signal to reality's operating system, see?
Come on, said the Director. You are all completely mad people who mess around with technology and weird social theory for fun until your brains shit themselves and you fall over. Any of you could have...
Benighted infants, Strauss laughed, gesturing at Goldmark to get the coffees. I’d be amazed if anything in here grew on or near an animal. It’s all that printed meat, diddled with by needles.
Aleister Crowley told a friend he could make any random fall over without touching them. To illustrate, he walked behind a stranger for a block or so, matching his footsteps precisely to the stranger’...
You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under their bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- LIES ARE NEWS AND TRUTH IS OBSOLETE!
You know what this is?- Nope- It's a bowel disruptor. And you are just full of shit.
Writing comics? Still the best job in the world. I sit around all day making shit up and see it illustrated, in 99% of cases, exactly as I imagined it -- if not better. I've been doing this a long tim...