Quotes from Bill Willingham

Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.

Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we do.

Who can gauge all the ways in which the Gods who've created you craft your life?

it's a tough thing having to step aside for a friend, when your heart's breaking and your nether parts are still tangled up in their base desires.

The turtle stands on a turtle, which stands on a turtle. That's the universe in whole, boy. It's turtles all the way down.

Many a man has gotten himself killed by believing his own press

I thought you'd have learned by now. I'm going to stay by you until the sun and the moon and the stars spin down into darkness and dust.

Those who insist we band together tend to see themselves in charge.

I give you real world-changers like Homer, Jack Kirby, and the aforementioned Shakespeare as the archangels of pure story.

Since you types wouldn't be happy unless you're unhappy, I wouldn't dare try to take your joy away by solving your problems.

We have to harden our hearts and think of the greater good. The plan is, our exposure to her is supposed to purify us. But it seems more like her exposure to us is diminishing her.

Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying, Snow said. It can make up for evil done to you, but can destroy the remaining good in your life.

Mr Cricket: So what are you going to do? Rose Red: Fight like a motherfucker, of course. Fight like I've got a chance. Hell if I'm just going to roll over and show throat.

Wooden 1: How many kinds of guns have you meatheads created? Gun Shop Clerk: Thousands. Hundreds of thousands? Wooden 2: That's extravagance beyond credulity. Wooden 3: Are there really that many different kinds of people you need to kill?

Remember what dad said. You're still alive-- you still fight.

Sometimes impossible things are entirely possible, if there's magic enough in the world.

Hope has power only when married to personal action.

Acquiring true wisdom is always a greater burden than transient pain.

While he lived, entire worlds weren't enough to contain him. Now six good feet of earth are sufficient.

An election is just a romance writ large, with an entire community, rather than a single woman, as the object of one's pursuit.

Different rules apply to those who shake the worlds.

One thing I have finally gotten through my thick skull: Anyone looking for love is also looking for trouble.

The fact that I let you back into my bed is the proof that I've hit rock bottom.

My partner and I are very serious about the hero profession.