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Without my face, nobody knows. Nobody knows who I am. — Alan Moore

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

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist. — Alan Moore

Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity. — Alan Moore

There never was a Jack the Ripper. Mary Kelly was just an unusually determined suicide. Why don't we leave it there. — Alan Moore

Finally, faced with horrors both intolerable and unavoidable, I chose madness. — Alan Moore

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

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

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

My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you? — Alan Moore

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

I have so very much. I have so very little. — Alan Moore

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand? — Alan Moore

I've been dog rough, half blind and barking mad for years but you don't catch me going on about it. — Alan Moore

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

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. — Alan Moore

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart. — Adrianne Palicki

In heaven's name be a man, sir! Your pitiful whining sickens me! — Alan Moore

I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world. — Alan Moore

Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen. — Alan Moore

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him ... [from Macbeth] — Alan Moore

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. — Alan Moore

Uglier than death backin' outta the outhouse readin' mad magazine and crazy as a football bat. — Alan Moore

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

Places don't stay where you left them. You go back there, anywhere, and even if it looks exactly how it did before, it's somewhere else. — Alan Moore

Outside an ambulance begins to scream as if overwhelmed by the suffering it must forever carry in its belly. — Alan Moore

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what's important, not popular. — Alan Moore

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

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

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences. — Alan Moore

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. — Alan Moore

For my own part, regret nothing. Have lived life, free from compromise ... and step into the shadow now without complaint.
-Rorschach — Alan Moore

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

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious. — Alan Moore

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea ... and ideas are bulletproof. — Alan Moore

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs. — Alan Moore

Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them. — Alan Moore

Love doesn't have a point. Love is the point. — Alan Moore

Alan Moore is a prophetic writer. — Gerard Way

I imagine that existential dread probably ought to get a devil. A devil of post-colonial angst. A devil of complicated grief. — Alan Moore

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin. — Alan Moore

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

No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me. — Alan Moore

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. — Alan Moore

Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes. — J. Michael Straczynski

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom. — Alan King

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

They are bright and exciting. Like America. Like its women. — Alan Moore

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes. — Alan Moore

Love your rage, not your cage. — Alan Moore

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction:
Simply to participate. — Alan Moore

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness — Alan Moore

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

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it. — Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people. — Alan Moore

We're saints and sinners both, the lot of us, or else there's no saints and no sinners. — Alan Moore

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

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless. — Alan Moore

There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence. — Alan Moore

Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain ... The black sheep of the family. — Alan Moore

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot. — Alan Moore

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. — Alan Moore

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret. — Alan Moore

You see, Evey, all the world's a stage. And everything else ...
... is vaudeville. — Alan Moore

Behind gods, ghosts, and people squats the state, which asserts total access to both public and private space: the — Alan Moore

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

It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again. — Alan Moore

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. — Alan Moore

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing...
One loud noise, and it's gone. — Alan Moore

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

Life isn't divided into genres — Alan Moore

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring. — Alan Moore

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot. — Alan Moore

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

in life there were times when the entirely inappropriate was the only appropriate response. Perhaps, — Alan Moore

Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely ... — Alan Moore

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask. — Alan Moore

I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future. — Alan Moore

I had first heard about Alan Turing when I was a teenager. I've known about him since I was a kid, and I always wanted to write about him. — Graham Moore

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan. — Alan Moore

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant. — Alan Moore

Invoke not reason. In the end it is too small a deity. — Alan Moore

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it. — Alan Moore

inverted memories of this immediate revelation, memories that in some puzzling fashion one might have before their subject had occurred. The — Alan Moore

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

I did it thirty-five minutes ago. — Alan Moore

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

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense. — Alan Moore

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. — Alan Moore

I am not man so much as syndrome; as a voice that bellows in the human heart.
I am rain.
I cannot be contained — Alan Moore

If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice. — Alan Moore

I do prefer to criticise things from a position of ignorance. — Alan Moore

For to be human is not enough ... when gods cry war amidst the thunder. — Alan Moore

It's not easy to convey to someone who doesn't read comics just how Alan Moore has dominated the field since 'Watchmen.' — Susanna Clarke

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

Let me show you firmness of my belief. — Alan Moore

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. — Alan Moore

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell. — Alan Moore

All culture must have arisen from cult. — Alan Moore

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings. — Alan Moore