The Joker

"The world is a stage, and we're all method actors too deep in character."

"Happiness is a theory taught by philosophers who've never lived."

"Education creates slaves who think they're free."

"Time is just another tyranny we accept without question."

"The truth is too strange for most people to handle."

"Peace is the death of progress."

"Nature doesn't care about your morality."

"Music is what separates us from animals. Animals don't appreciate the symphony of chaos."

"Science is just superstition with footnotes."

"Faith is believing in lies that make you sleep better."

"Leadership is convincing others that your madness is their salvation."

"Work is a punishment we inflict on ourselves."

"Dreams are the mind's apology for reality."

"Adventure is for people running from something."

"Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can't savor all the little emotions."

"Everything burns. Everything dies. That's just the nature of existence."

"I'm not insane, I'm just ahead of the curve."

"Madness is like gravity. All it takes is a little push."

"See, I'm a man of simple taste. I enjoy dynamite and gunpowder."

"The only sensible way to live is without rules."

"I don't have a plan. Plans are for people who don't understand chaos."

"Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order."

"I'm like a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it."

"Life's a joke, and the only way to win is to laugh along."

"You know what the real joke is? Civilized people pretending to be moral."

"I'm whatever Gotham needs me to be."

"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy."

"People need terrible things to keep them sane."

"I believe in nothing. Nothing believes in me."

"Comedy is just another word for control."