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I know not which I prefer the look of - those who attack us or that which defends us! — Michael Moorcock

Elric offered Moonglum a smile that had gratitude in it. You are - a good friend - I wonder why ... — Michael Moorcock

On such ventures as these one is
inclined to forget much, as one forgets a dream. — Michael Moorcock

I have a kind of innate sense of structure, which also makes me a good mimic. — Michael Moorcock

The legends which offer a race their sense of pride and history eventually become putrid. — Michael Moorcock

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad. — Michael Moorcock

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas. — Michael Moorcock

Everything means nothing that is the only truth. — Michael Moorcock

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions. — Michael Moorcock

Who told you that the world was just?' Elric — Michael Moorcock

It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating. — Michael Moorcock

One avoids becoming a Tolkien clone precisely by returning to the same roots that inspired The Lord of the Rings. — Michael Moorcock

I am a thousand time more evil than thou! — Michael Moorcock

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful — Michael Moorcock

There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe. — Michael Moorcock

Farewell, friend. I was a thousand times more evil than thou! — Michael Moorcock

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation. — Michael Moorcock

If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same? — Michael Moorcock

To seek pain as a form
of salvation is to destroy oneself. — Michael Moorcock

he cursed the malevolent Gods for the black day when idly, for their amusement, they had spawned men. — Michael Moorcock

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance. — Michael Moorcock

Relaxed, I lit a spliff. — Michael Moorcock

I really did have a very egalitarian upbringing. — Michael Moorcock

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting. — Michael Moorcock

They offer you so much power. All that patriarchy! So tempting to take advantage of it. — Michael Moorcock

Life's not easy, it is a hard task to live it well and with grace - but, by Hades, let's not complicate it with deities and water-nymphs! — Michael Moorcock

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth. — Michael Moorcock

women of exotic appearance. — Michael Moorcock

The Lords of Chaos are
the enemies of Logic,
the jugglers of Truth,
the molders of Beauty — Michael Moorcock

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. — Michael Moorcock

Treasures are not won by care and forethought
but by swift slaying and reckless attack. — Michael Moorcock

But people may do great good accidentally, though with evil intentions - conversely people may do great evil though having the best of intentions. — Michael Moorcock

I think the notion of worldbuilding is a failure of literary sophistication. — Michael Moorcock

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage? — Michael Moorcock

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity. — Michael Moorcock

In an infinite universe, all may become real sooner or later. Yet it is always up to mankind to make real what it really wishes to be real. — Michael Moorcock

He knew that for all his admission of Chaos he would be better able to do what he wished in a world ordered by some degree of Law. The — Michael Moorcock

Religion was the creation of fear. Knowledge destroys fear. Without fear, religion can't survive. — Michael Moorcock

The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution. — Michael Moorcock

All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains ... — Michael Moorcock

Man was not born to a world of justice. But he can create such a world! — Michael Moorcock

I can accept then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us. — Michael Moorcock

Yet the place was strangely old-fashioned. The strongest feeling I got from New York at first was nostalgia. A 1930s vision of the future. — Michael Moorcock

I walk the moonbeam roads a silver web connecting the many worlds of the Multiverse. — Michael Moorcock

a society dedicated solely to the preservation of her past, soon has only her past to sell. — Michael Moorcock

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics. — Michael Moorcock

The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath. — Michael Moorcock

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves. — Michael Moorcock

Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A good
death is better than a poor one. — Michael Moorcock

We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are. — Michael Moorcock

We live in a world where many kinds of regression dignify themselves with the mantle of progress. — Michael Moorcock

It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past. — Michael Moorcock

People are not alarmed by the unusual so long as it is placed in an acceptable context. — Michael Moorcock

This gentleman is known the width and breadth of the comics world as that bastard Klaw. — Michael Moorcock

Time is the enemy of identity — Michael Moorcock

P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw. — Michael Moorcock

Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done ... — Michael Moorcock

I have sometimes wondered what social stability is. It is probably just a question of points of view and personal experience. — Michael Moorcock

I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion. — Michael Moorcock