Alan Moore: Trending quotes (page 9)

“In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.”

“As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.”

“A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?”

“No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.”

“That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.”

“Is it meaningless to apologize?

Never.”

“With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty”

“It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for… it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?”

“I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.”

“Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except… me?”

“Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”

“The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.”

“How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?”

“American love — like coke in green glass bottles… they don't make it anymore.”

“Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.”

“Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.”

“Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”

“Never despair. Never surrender.”

“Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.”