Alan Moore Quotes - Page 7

With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty.

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

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

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.

War is a perversion of sex.

American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.

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

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

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

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

Life isn't divided into genres

In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

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

All culture must have arisen from cult.

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

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