Alan Moore Quotes

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.

We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?

I am going to look at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us. All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

It was as if life was one great big impersonal piece of machinery.

Books require titles reading them doesn't

Evening work is economical. Power comes most cheaply by night.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! YOU'VE READ ABOUT IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS! NOW, SHUDDER AS YOU OBSERVE, BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES, THAT MOST RAREAND RAGIC OF NATURE'S MIS

People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't talk about them.

Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and absolute. This is the magic place, the mad place at the spark gap between word and world.

And it's only symbolism puts magic and meaning into anything. You of all people should know that. We can make love amongst the gods, or we can screw on a dirty mattress. It's our choice.

Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular.

machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time

They are bright and exciting. Like America. Like its women.

Are you like, a crazy person?I’m quite sure they will say so.

Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done...

If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.

There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea.Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell.

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?

I love the smell of paper in the morning it smells like victory.