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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
There never was a Jack the Ripper. Mary Kelly was just an unusually determined suicide. Why don't we leave it there.
— 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'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
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
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
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
-Rorschach — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Behind gods, ghosts, and people squats the state, which asserts total access to both public and private space: the
— 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
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
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
I am rain.
I cannot be contained — 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