"Rorschach's Journal. October 12th, 1985:

Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.

The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.

The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"...

...and I'll look down and whisper "No.""
— Alan Moore

"No. Never give up. Even in the face of Armageddon."
— --Rorschach, Watchmen, Alan Moore

"Whatever happened to the American dream? It came true. You're lookin' at it."
— Alan Moore (Watchmen)

"Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that."
— Alan Moore

"Rorschach's Journal. October 12th, 1985. Dog Carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!' And I'll look down, and whisper 'no.' They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like my father, or President Truman. Decent men, who believed in a day's work for a day's pay. Instead they followed the droppings of lechers and communists and didn't realize that the trail led over a precipice until it was too late. Don't tell me they didn't have a choice. Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers, and all of a sudden nobody can think of anything to say."
— Alan Moore (Absolute Watchmen)

"People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and...well, sometimes they can't talk about them. I know how that is."
— Silk Spectre/Laurie Juspeczyk, from Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons's The Watchmen

"Life is a highly overrated phenomenon"
— Dr. Manhattan

"Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'save us!'... and I'll look down, and whisper 'no.'"
— Alan Moore

""Rorshach's journal. October 16, 1985. Been waiting in Moloch's fridge for three hours. Ate two raw eggs and packet of honey mustard sauce. Just realized I am sitting on baking soda. Freezing ass off. Really have to take leak." "
— Alan Moore

"What happened to the American dream? It came true. You're looking at it."
— Edward Blake - The Comedian

""...The accumulated filth...will look up and shout 'Save us!' and I will look down and whisper 'No'...""
— Walter Kovacs Rorschach