“The Batcave is a monument to his pain. The cave is more than his war room. He might think of it that way, all the tools and resources hes assembled for his work. But thats not it at all. The Batcav...”

“Magic. It was worse than feline logic. Leave it to magic to re-fracture and re-herniate his vertebrae in the middle of a battle. A powerful sigh forced itself through the controlled exhale of his K...”

“Bruce hates magic. Hes a scientist; he has a rational mind. And he respects natural law even more, if possible, than manmade ones. Magic lets someone cheat those laws, and he hates it.”

“When it came to "getting away from it all," there really werent many places quite like the top of the tallest mountain in the world. He glanced around the summit, noting the other reason why he enj...”

“Something was wrong. I felt a cold shiver. I didnt know what at first. Something was just wrong. I thought of Azrael for some reason, the Imposter, in that cowl, pretending he was Batman. It was th...”

“Greymalkin was no demon familiar; she was a rambunctious cat with the playful temperament of a kitten. On those occasions when Greymalkin decided the Tarot were her playthings, Miriam knew any atte...”

“Before you look for dirt in people, look for treasure.”

“Words let you know what is in someones mind, deeds let you know what is in someones heart, and character lets you know what is in someones soul.”

“You speak like a heroine...we shall see if you can suffer like one.”

“There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race o...”

“Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn't prevent it being reality itself...”

“I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.”

“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”

“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. ...”

“Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.”