Alan Quotes

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.

I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype.

Is it meaningless to apologize? Never.

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

I love films that are made with almost no budget.

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Life isn't divided into genres

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.

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

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

Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition.

Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.

They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.

A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to approach any kind of storytelling.

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 doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.

I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

I've never really cared much about money. I've got enough to live on. And it's not like I live in a fancy house, it's not like I own a car, and it's not like I ever go on holiday.

When Celtic get an opportunity to go above Rangers they've got to jump at it with both hands.

When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.

We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It's almost like there's too much choice.

You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.

I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.

I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I can't ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.

There's a very distinct difference between a really wonderful DIY label and a soft drink company, or a car company, or a clothing brand, and you will always understand that difference.

Things are changing at such a rate that you really can't get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.

I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it; I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn't.

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle, and sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.

I have this eerie feeling that by the time I'm 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before. It's cool but also a little creepy.