Grant Morrison · 216 pages
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“Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker”
“Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.”
“I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.”
“Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimes…I question the rationality of my actions. And I’m afraid that when I walk through those asylum gates... when I walk into Arkham and the doors close behind me... it’ll be just like coming home.”
“It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd.”
“Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.”
“It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?”
“The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.”
“Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you.”
“Einstein was wrong! I"M the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!”
“Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!”
“I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It's only a doll house after all. Anyway, I don't mind. I like dolls.
Particularly the live ones.”
“I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity”
“And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something.”
“Routine is important, i think.a good routine diverts the mind from morbid imaginings.”
“Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.”
“He realized that, despite the dangers and alarms of the day, waiting was perhaps the worst thing of all.”
“Make sure your soul is attached at all times - this town will steal it in a second, given the chance.”
“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
“There had been absolutely nothing I could do to cover up the love I had for her, no desires or goals or bodies dense enough to bury the need that had consumed me since the first time I'd glimpsed her. She'd stolen something from me that I'd never get back, something she kept hidden deep beneath the surface in places I doubted either of us could see, in places neither of us could define.”
“Do you think I'll ever have a real life?"
"Define real."
"You know... a job, a family, a house, stuff like that."
"Is that what you want?"
"I don't know. I used to think the idea of normal was awful, but maybe that was just because I never thought I could have it.”
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