110 Quotes by Michael Moorcock

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

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

I suppose it was a mistake to sketch in a background for the movie, in which I described a likely mix of people in a late-Roman settlement, amongst them people from Africa and the Near East. 'You mean they had black people back then!' was actually what my boss exclaimed when he read that. 'Could Lancelot's sidekick be black?

In many ways the recent history of the Ukraine can be seen as an intensified version of the history of our era. Most of the political issues are familiar to us. Most of the methods used to meet those issues are also familiar. Events in the Ukraine prefigured events through the rest of the world...

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!

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

Tanelorn had taken many forms in her endless existence, but all those forms, save one, had been beautiful.

Yet without Chaos there would be no Creation, and perhaps no Creator. That is the simple truth of all existence, Lord Elric. The promise of immortality.

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