595 Quotes by Alan Moore

"Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and absolute. This is the magic place, the mad place at the spark gap between word and world."

"Where comes this dullness in your eyes? How has your century numbed you so? Shall man be given marvels only when he is beyond all wonder?"

"It would seem we are to suffer an apocalypse of cockatoos - William Gull"

"Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us, but within that inch, we are free."

"Not thou alone, but all humanity doth in its progress fable emulate. Whence came thy rocket-ships and submarine if not from Nautilus, from Cavorite? Your trustiest companions since the cave, we apparitions guided mankind's tread, our planet, unseen counterpart to thine, as permanent, as ven'rable, as true. On dream's foundation matter's mudyards rest. Two sketching hands, each one the other draws: the fantasies thou've fashioned fashion thee."

"There are people.There are stories.The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth.Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies."

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

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

"There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof."

"When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops intellect. Nothing more threatening to a politician than a well read working class."