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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
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 formof 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 arethe enemies of Logic,
the jugglers of Truth,
the molders of Beauty — Michael Moorcock
Treasures are not won by care and forethoughtbut 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 gooddeath 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