“This is how it happened… This is how the Batman died.”
-Commissioner James Gordon
Arkham
“Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot. So my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible…”
-Bruce Wayne, Detective Comics #33
“Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can’t see the enemy.”
― Frank Miller, Batman: Year One
“Sometimes… sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We’re inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it’s your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass… and we are you.”
― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum – A Serious House on Serious Earth