Grant Morrison Quotes

Amid all the bangs and the drama and the grand passions, it's kindness and just ordinary goodness that stands out in the end.

I really think this is it...
Third time lucky.
This is the one...
...this is going to change everything.

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

Ours is an overpopulated, under educated, shithole in the throes of mass extinctions - it's a wonderful world.

I won't tell you again! Don't look back! In hell you never look back!

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

Words are ugly when they travel in packs.

The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.

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.

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

Our stupidity has turned the world into a hand grenade. Our greed has pulled the pin.

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

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. Just fo feel. Just to feel something.

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

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor?
Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it ...

I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read.

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

Only a bitter little adolescent boy could confuse realism with pessimism.

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.

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

From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.

Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.

Don't patronize me or I'll break your face - Damian Wayne (Prime Earth)

Routine is important, i think.a good routine diverts the mind from morbid imaginings.

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

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

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.

The multiverse has natural defenses none of you could have imagined. No one %$%$ with the judge of all evil.

A bullet in the right place can change the world.

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

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

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

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

I don't like to think of my readership as 'fans,' a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life.

He can survive anywhere. Anytime. Surviving is what he does.

Magneto Was Right' - Quentin Quire

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

I didn't quit drinking. I stopped drinking shitty alcohol with assholes. And that, my friend, was the healthiest choice I've ever made.

I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star.
Illuminated woman am I.

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

So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell.

It's not so much that history is simply cyclical, it seems to progress via recursive, repeated fractal patterns with minute variations.

Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods.

All is one in Darkseid. The mighty body is my church. When I command your surrender, I speak with three billion voices ...

It's mostly just you have to convince yourself that there's nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!

Einstein was wrong! IM the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!

This is the end of our sentence

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

Somewhere in our Darkest Nights we made up a story about a Man who will never let us down.

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

But a far more virulent strain survived. It's having sex with your thoughts. You'll give birth to increasingly more monstrous ideas.

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

It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself.

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

The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.

Only nothing is impossible.

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

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

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

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

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.

Of course I'm a threat. Why? Did you think for a moment that I wasn't? - Emma Frost

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.

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.

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

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

mmmmen stink! bossss stink! hungry

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

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

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

I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.

The first light had cast the first shadow.

All it takes is one wrong turn. And there's always one wrong turn.

Who needs girls when you've got comics?

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

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

Doomed planet.
Desperate scientists.
Last hope.
Kindly couple.

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.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

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

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