Essex County Quotes

#1. I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like 'Essex County.'

Jeff Lemire

#2. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Sylvia Plath

#3. Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.

Denise Van Outen

#4. Gravity is why there are suns and planets in the first place. It is practically God.

Mary Roach

#5. If you were a kid in the 1950s, and you got nightmares from a story in a horror comic book, you have Al Feldstein to blame. If you were a kid in the '60s or '70s, giggling at 'MAD's prankster wit, you have Feldstein to thank.

Richard Corliss

#6. I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.

Martin Luther

#7. Seattle, I get a call from Ben.

Gayle Forman

#8. What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

Charles De Lint

#9. One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don't know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time.

Marc Andreessen

#10. There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

Betty Buckley

#11. We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

John Zerzan