Warren Ellis

“I want to be a machine.”

“The future is weird.”

“This is what the world is, after all: an endless battle of clue-bearing artifacts and sensitive minds, investigators and criminals, spies and counterspies, criminals and criminals. This is the world.”

“Some people are just born human. The rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.”

“Not being a dick is a good starting principle.”

“The past is a grenade that explodes when you open your hand.”

“If you're going to be a weirdo, be a professional weirdo. Out-weird everyone.”

“The best way to complain is to make things.”

“Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness is a key aspect of maturing.”

“You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an actual philosophy, you have to have a reason for what you're doing.”

“The city is a body.”

“It's always the story that’s important, not the medium.”

“The world is what it is. It's not what you want it to be.”

“I don't think I write about villains. I write about human beings. I write about people.”

“We have to save the world, and we have to do it with style.”

“This is the 21st century. It's time to move on. It's time to be something else.”

“We're all weirdos. You just have to find your own tribe of weirdos.”

“Information is a weapon. The more you have, the more you can do.”

“We're not here to be safe. We're here to be dangerous.”

“You don't get to choose what you're not.”