110 Quotes by 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.

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

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

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we’ll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.

Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world’s population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

Man can live by bread alone when all his energies are devoted to attaining that bread, but once his mind is clear, once he has ceased to labour through all his waking hours to find food, then he begins to think.

We must be bound to one another then,” Elric murmured despairingly. “Bound by hell-forged chains and fate-haunted circumstance. Well, then – let it be thus so – and men will have cause to tremble and flee when they hear the names of Elric of Melinbone and Stormbringer, his sword. We are two of a kind – produced by an age which has deserted us. Let us give this age cause to hate us!

And you, Prince Elric? She attracted the albino’s wandering attention. Do you know his story? Elric shook his head. I only know, he said, that he is a shape-changer and, that most cursed of souls, a person of rare goodness and sanity. Imagine such torment as is his!

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