Alan Moore Quotes

Love doesn't have a point. Love is the point.

The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.

It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

All culture must have arisen from cult.

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.

It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

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

I should just keep me mouth shut, I just upset people.

There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

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

I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.

I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there's no real communication going on there.

I have so very much. I have so very little.

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

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.

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

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.

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.

The superman exists and he's American.

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.

I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

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.

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.

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

When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they're probably absolutely literally correct.

Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.