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“While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

“There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.”

Alan Moore

Source: V for Vendetta, Vol. III of X

“Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition…”

Alan Moore book Batman: The Killing Joke

Source: Batman: The Killing Joke

Coffee , Thinking

“Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

People , Silence

“With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth… But we as gardeners, must beware… for some seeds are the seeds of ruin… and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

Idea , Science

“Roses are red
Violets are blue
Everything's possible
Nothing is true.”

Alan Moore

Source: V for Vendetta, Vol. VIII of X

“This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.”

Alan Moore

The Believer interview (2013)
Context: Yeah, our view of reality, the one we conventionally take, is one among many. It’s pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don’t actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what’s going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings. We perceive our own perception, and that perception is to us the entirety of the universe. I believe magic is, on one level, the willful attempt to alter those perceptions. Using your metaphor of an aperture, you would be widening that window or changing the angle consciously, and seeing what new vistas it affords you.

Universe

“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.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

Time , Past , Future , Parting

“Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Variant: Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
Source: V for Vendetta (1989)

Happiness

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“They claim their labours are to build a heaven yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be…too late.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

World

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

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“… My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?”

Alan Moore book Batman: The Killing Joke

Source: Batman: The Killing Joke

World

“To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.”

Alan Moore

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/alan-moore-the-reluctant-hero-64407.html
Context: If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn't cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When you've got these kinds of sums involved in creating another two hours of entertainment for Western teenagers, I feel it crosses the line from being merely distasteful to being wrong. To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.

Books , Painting

“The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs…. It´s us. Only us.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

God , Fate , Children , World

“Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.”

Alan Moore

Source: Promethea, Vol. 5

Dance