110 Quotes by Michael Moorcock

It’s History that’s caused all the troubles in the past.

Time is the enemy of identity.

The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I’d rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

Destiny’s Champion, Fate’s fool. Eternity’s Soldier, Time’s Tool.

I have brought evil to many places,” he said, “but usually there has already been evil to match mine. I seek no excuses, for I know what I am and I know what I have done. I have slain malignant sorcerers and destroyed oppressors, but I have also been responsible for slaying fine men, and a woman, my cousin, whom I loved, I killed – or my sword did.

She had enjoyed a phase where she found it easier to divide herself and argue, as it were, face to face, than to attempt to arrange her thoughts in the conventional manner.

A man frantically spurring an equally frightened horse – and behind him, the distance decreasing, a pack of what at first appeared to be dogs. But these were not dogs – they were half-dog and half-bird, with the lean, shaggy bodies and legs of dogs but possessing birdlike talons in place of paws and savagely curved beaks which snapped where muzzles should have been.

Religion was the creation of fear. Knowledge destroys fear. Without fear, religion can’t survive.