Quotes from Alan Moore

Justice be above the Street, for lightnings mark our transit and the corners of Eternity are opened. This

The third and, given due consideration, most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favor.

Opens I mouth, for make noise in I's hurt, and say of fire is come through I, and rise, and rise, with grits of bright, in neath of old black sky.

All traffic with the brains drowned realm is sorcery: Our bards, salvaging notions from their minds to plant in those of others, where they grow to splendours, else atrocities

When most of our contemporary superhero movies are showcases for their escalating special effects, then the question of which film has the greater cinematic or artistic value becomes a matter of competing CGI workshops, and goes better unasked.

It's not God that kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us.

You have encouraged these malicious incompetents, who have made your working life life a shambles. You have accepted without question their senseless orders.

Though I walk through The Valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no evil

The one place in which Gods and demons inarguably exist is in the human mind where they are real in all their grandeur and monstrosity.

He would sooner live a life of endless blessing than one of undying curse, and after all, it was in how you chose to see things that the narrow border between Hell and Paradise was traced.

No, the Indian mutineers may have surrendered, but I did not. If I work with the British, it is because I no longer feel even Indian. The sea, now, is my only nation.

Bed-sheet creases print a river delta on Mick's back and in his restlessness it strikes him that civilisation and its history are similarly bagatelles, deluded into thinking that their progress has the ordered logic of a chess match when it's more the random ping of Tiddlywinks.

Like it or not, horror is part of our media, part of our culture, part of our life.

Do we immerse ourselves in fictional horror as a way of numbing our emotions to it's real-life counterpart ?

Faith, to his mind, was a willed asserting of the sacred. If it were made more or less than this then it was mere belief, as children will believe the goblin tale they hear for just so long as it is being told. To hold belief in a material fact was only vanity, easily shattered, where the ideal was a truth eternal in whatever form expressed.

None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me!

Ahogy öregszel, más színben látsz majd mindent. A nagy dolgok valahogy eltörpülnek. Végül egyszer?en lemosod magadról az ilyen emlékeket.

These days, though, he'd lowered his sights and if he thought about what might be after death at all it was in terms of how he'd be remembered, or else how he'd be forgotten.

splashed amidst a pillow-fight of pigeons

If Mr. Darwin were to be believed, then it was from the timeless dapple of the forest's canopy that men had first descended, and it was the forest's roots that drank men's bodies when they died, returned their vital salts back to the prehistoric treetops in gold elevator cages made of sap.

Or there's Alex Crowley , tiresomely attempting to persuade his school-chums to refer to him as Shelley's Alastor , like some self-conscious Goth from Nottingham called Dave insisting that his vampire name is Armand .

Everything is made of stories. They've all happened before, in similar circumstances. It's like a circle. It goes round and round and round.

There is more to life than the material world. The truth most painful to the heart is that which makes the spirit stronger. And it is the strength of the spirit that will be needed when the physical crisis is over.

We aren't contractually tied down to rationality! There is no sanity clause!