Alan Moore Quotes

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy.

A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

Life isn't divided into genres

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls.

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

I think I'm a bit like a kind of shark, that if I stop swimming, I won't be able to breathe, something like that.

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?

Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape… But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future.

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some of them rather than studying the way that Stan Lee or Chris Claremont depict people.

...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?

Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language.

They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world.

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait.

She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. It's true. She's aging more noticeably every day — while I am standing still. I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.

You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.

Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex.

It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.

The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn't caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work.

Everybody has their story to tell.

Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.

Rorschach: Used to come here often, back when we were partners.

Dreiberg: Oh. Uh, yeah... yeah, those were great times, Rorschach. Great times. Whatever happened to them? Rorschach: [exiting] You quit.

Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh.

Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

I'm a very smug show-off at heart. I'm altogether too pleased with myself. The big boost for me is to be able to turn out something that I think is pretty marvelous, like 'Lost Girls.' I'm not in it for money, I'm just in it for the glory.

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured.

Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

There is some confusion as to what magic actually is.

I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest descriptions of magic. Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as “the art”. I believe this is completely literal. I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic.

Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

If we loved Steve Aylett, really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save his happiness and comfort, we'd lobotomise him.

It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.

In countries like the U.S. and Great Britain, we exist in a wholly sexualized culture, where everything from cars to snack food are sold with a healthy slathering of sex to make them more commercially appealing.

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

I felt, if I'm going to react I might as well over react.

So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

If you're using sex to sell sneakers, then you're not just selling sneakers, you're selling sex as well, and you're contributing to the sexual temperature of society.