Our guy has a property office, John. And I don't mean the Property Office here in One PP. I mean the huge fucking storage facility. A guy in there, with access to thousands of fucking handguns. Even the ones that other people would be keeping an eye on, like Son of Sam's piece, for fuck's sake - a guy in there who'll just boost them and give them to our guy to kill people with. And if the guns are too famous, he'll cut his own slugs out of the bodies and walk away. This guy, our guy, he's actually starting to scare me a bit right now."" A couple of hundred kills to his name didn't do that?"" Meh. I dream about killing two hundred people every fucking night."" You know," said Tallow, "whenever I'm in danger of forgetting you're CSU, you always find a way to remind me.

— Warren Ellis

Religion lives not in dogma, but utterly within the virtues of love and self-sacrifice. Without those, there is no future I can bear to stand, nor hope for the continuance of God's creation. It is not blasphemy to say that the work of Jesus the redeemer was and is to break the chains of the realms of darkness. And set free the creature from the power of sin.

— Warren Ellis

Scotch whiskey is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.

— Warren Ellis

That was a stupid idea I made up while drunk. Why did someone build that?

— Warren Ellis

The best gifts are never given, but claimed.

— Warren Ellis

The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favorite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is.

— Warren Ellis

The elevator doors opened to reveal a very large man brandishing a bloodstained antique phone receiver in a plastic bag and proclaiming, "I found this up him!"" You know," said Tallow, "I really have no response to that.

— Warren Ellis

The future sneaks up on us. It leaks in through the small, ordinary things.

— Warren Ellis

There are many good reasons for drinking, and one's just entered my head: If you don't drink when you're living, how the fuck can you drink when you're dead?

— Warren Ellis

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