Spider Jerusalem Quotes

“...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 That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- LIES ARE NEWS AND TRUTH IS OBSOLETE!”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life

“I remember first learning about death quite vividly.

I'm not sure how old I was, but I remember the conversation like it was yesterday. My grandfather had died, and my mother was trying to explain it to me.

'Sometimes, when someone gets ill, and they're very very old, they don't get better again. They just get iller and iller and then... then their body stops working.'

'I don't understand.'

'What's in them just goes away, and doesn't come back.'

'Grandpa isn't coming back?'

'No,' she said. 'Not ever again.'

'Grandpa said he was going away and not ever coming back after he held Grandma's head in that cotton-dump outside of town and kicked Skeeter seventy-three times.'

'Grandpa was very drunk. That's not the same as being dead. Grandpa's dead, son. He's not there anymore.'

And I remember saying, 'Hold everything right fucking THERE.

'You went to all the trouble of conceiving me, and giving birth to me, and raising me and feeding me and clothing me and all-- and, YEAH, whipping me from time to time, and making me live in a house that's freezing fucking cold all the goddamn time-- and you make me cry and things hurt so much and disappointments crush my heart every day and I can't do half the things I want to do and sometimes I just want to scream-- and what I've got to look forward to is my body breaking and something flipping off the switch in my head-- I go through all this-- and then there's death?

'What is the motherfucking deal here?”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City

“I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“Cheap! But not as cheap as your girlfriend.”
― Warren Ellis

“I want something that'll give me the stamina of a young werewolf, the vision of a shaman, the thoughts of a serial killer and the gentleness of a hungry vampire bat.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard

“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 That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- Lies are news and truth is obsolete!”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

“Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticated camera capable of full 3-D input and peripheral pickup, using only water and jelly.
Build an eye.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life

“Yeah, trust the fuckhead.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“I can't solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people can't avoid noticing them.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard

“I'm going to shit in your lungs for this.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard

“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.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard

“It was like washing down a bucket of peyote with a vatful of absinthe.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life