Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1 Quotes

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

“Journalism is just a gun. It’s only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that’s all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“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

“I'm sorry. Is that too harsh an observation for you? Does that sound too much like the Truth? Fuck you. If anyone in this shithole city gave two tugs of a dead dog's cock about Truth, this wouldn't be happening.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“- You know what this is?
- Nope
- It's a bowel disruptor. And you are just full of shit.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

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 That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- Lies are news and truth is obsolete!”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

“TRUTH comes easier when you're nine years old, too. Everything's a lot less complicated. This or that. Us or them. Truth or lie.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

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

“The point is, the only real tools we have are our eyes and our heads. It's not the act of seeing with our eyes alone; it's correctly comprehending what we see. Treating life as an autopsy.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“All people are scum. No matter what they look like.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“It's been so long, i'm afraid to get laid now! I got so much internal pressure built up that i'd probably blow a hole in a woman the size of my fist!”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“A Kenyan man once said to me, 'You can get used to anything when money's involved.' He used to stick mice up his ass for twenty bucks at a time." -Spider Jerusalem”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“I feel...a terrible need to piss in a Christening font.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“Do you want to eat Peyotl and human flesh on the path to spiritual enlightenment? Or just for the hell of it? Join the ancient cult of Anasazi.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“So this zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell him I killed God. I tracked God down like a rabid dog, hacked off his legs with a hedge trimmer, raped him with a corncob and boiled off his corpse in an acid bath.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“I'm nuts about him, i've told him everything there is to tell about me, and he spends every night balls deep in me and it's GREAT, and i love him, and I look down at him when we're fucking...and it's like looking in an empty house.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“Se mi amaste, oggi vi ammazzereste tutti.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street