Grant Morrison Quotes

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

Reality and unreality have no clear distinction in our present circumstances.

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something persists, something that is always Superman.

I just do what I do because it feels right. Other people attach labels to that.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something.

We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.

When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?

He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.

I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols.

Only nothing is impossible.

Superman loves everyone. He's like Jesus except he punches people.

Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.

I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.

I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.

Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.

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.

And when it's all done, when there's no one left you'll come back for me. And tell me who I am and why I have to do what I do. And explain 'Eternity.' You'll come back

Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.

Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.

Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home.

I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story.

He felt the hot impact of bullets. He heard the sound of chopping meat. He thought 'is that me?' . . . and then he opened his eyes.

It's so horrible to realize you're just the same as everyone else, isn't it?

Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.

Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another.

The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?

The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can't piss upwards on people.

Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.