A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own.

You take the thing that is the worst thing that could have happened to you, the worst challenge in your life, and you turn it into fuel. You don't give up. And that's what Gotham is about.

Sometimes, all it takes is a few words to change your life.

I had to fight for wingdings. Batman needs to curse sometimes!

- If I tell you, will you let met go? - You bet, partner. [...] - You promised! - Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.

Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.

I always, always got to be the last man standing.

I read THE WICKED + THE DIVINE last night, and no matter how high your expectations are for it, its better.

Batman is the one you go to for answers and Clark Kent is the one you go to to really do the right thing. He stands as a shining example of what to do in any situation.

Jordie Bellaire knows how to tell a story with color.

Having that North Star for every story [about Batman] is really key for me. It allows me to go farther and farther off the reservation.

I don't know who you are, " she thought, "but whoever you are, you're one hell of a player.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.

There's nothing worse than being shackled by some miniscule sort of technology you have onstage, and I think your mettle is going to get tested in those moments.

There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.

If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.

What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?

Sometimes you can do things for people other than yourself.