I think Hellblazer is quite unique. In a comic world dominated by American characters (nothing wrong with that per se) Constantine was unashamedly British. A certain kind of miserablist British

When you're alive and everything is going fine, why talk about things? Talking's for later, when talking's all there is that's left.

Sometimes I think that if I wasn't crazy... I'd go crazy.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

All we have, all we are, are clichés.

Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.

The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real

I'm not mad. I'm a writer.

Even when I'm about to die I like to sound interesting and special. It was just talk.

The erotic drive is the great energy that moves through all evolution.What about love? Where does that fit in?Love's simply the handmaiden of the great energy, and an excuse to write suspect poetry.

Rules? You don't even know what game we're playing, mister.

As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.

You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.

[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party.

The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.

I truly believe anything is possible if you fully manifest it.

I've grown up, everyone's got to grow up. But there's something inside me, I'm always going to have that little sort of, how do you say, child streak.

My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'

Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it?