Quotes from Grant Morrison

Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.

The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.

Einstein was wrong! I"M the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it.

I love 'Batman.' I love the Adam West 'Batman.' I love the animated 'Batman.' The character of Batman can encompass any interpretation, which is what makes that character so brilliant and why it's survived so many different media.

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?

I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.

I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life.

From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.

Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.

Hell is only the Cringe Eternal and the Place of our Self's Undoing. When Nietzsche proclaimed God is Dead! he forgot to add that Satan is also dead and we are free from all that antique tat.

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.

I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It's only a doll house after all. Anyway, I don't mind. I like dolls. Particularly the live ones.