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21 " IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building’s stairs. There was no threat here. He told himself that with every step. But every step held memory. "
― Warren Ellis , Gun Machine
22 " Love is very important, nurse Igor. Love is a gateway emotion. Without it, you cannot fully comprehend and experience things like... vengeance, for instance. Or terror. Loss. Hate. Hate is all you need. Hate means never having to say you're sorry. You can't hate properly without ever having been in love. Because nothing will teach you hate as well as being in love. You can't understand a place without loving it. And it's the act of loving it that teaches you to hate it, as it chips away at your heart with its daily failures and disappointments. "
― Warren Ellis , Doktor Sleepless, Volume 1: Engines of Desire
23 " By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead. "
― Warren Ellis , Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard
24 " There are many good reasons for drinking, and one's just entered my head: If you don't drink when you're living, how the fuck can you drink when you're dead? "
― Warren Ellis , Desolation Jones: Made in England
25 " Jim Rosato was recently married, to a Greek nurse. Rosato was half Irish and half Italian, and there was a pool on at the 1st as to which of the two would arrive at work wearing the other's skin as a hat within the year. "
26 " If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it "
― Warren Ellis
27 " If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set? "
28 " You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under the bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- Lies are news and truth is obsolete! "
― Warren Ellis , Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
29 " In the long run, you see, none of that matters.I've seen Heaven, Dowling. And it's not a place where you exercise any power.In the long run, we are all three-dimensional side-effects of a two-dimensional universe existing in a multidimensional stack. "
30 " You think that drinking with a serial killer takes you into the midnight currents of the culture? I say bullshit. There's been twelve TV documentaries, three movies and eight books about me. I'm more popular than any of these designed-by-pedophile pop moppets littering the music television and the gossip columns. I've killed more people than Paris Hilton has desemenated, I was famous before she was here and I'll be famous after she's gone. I am the mainstream. I am, in fact, the only true rock star of the modern age. Every newspaper in America never fails to report on my comeback tours, and I get excellent reviews. "
― Warren Ellis , Crooked Little Vein
31 " You never get tired of looking at the stars "
― Warren Ellis , The Planetary Omnibus
32 " I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills… Take control of your world. "
― Warren Ellis , Injection, Vol. 1
33 " There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution. "
34 " I can't solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people can't avoid noticing them. "
35 " Once in a very blue moon, John Tallow imagined his younger self standing down the timeline of his present life, bare toes curling in teenage beach sand, looking ahead to today and watching his future life collapse in on itself like a dying star. His future life becoming small and dark and dense, its gravity apparently grim and inescapable.Once in a very blue moon, John Tallow spent some cash on a bottle of vodka and drank it at home within an hour. "
36 " You want to go out to dinner sometime?Sorry, no. I'm married, not hungry, infected with seven unknown diseases, gay, pregnant with lizards and clinically dead. "
― Warren Ellis , Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life
37 " Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples. "
38 " At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers. "
39 " Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and speed. These things do not promote love in most of us. "
40 " Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking. "
― Warren Ellis , Transmetropolitan, Vol. 4: The New Scum