Quotes from Alan Moore

Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers.

Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely.

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]

Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world...

The superman exists and he's American.

I heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Life seems harsh, and cruel. Says he feels all alone in threatening world. Doctor says: Treatment is simple. The great clown - Pagliacci - is in town. Go see him. That should pick you up. Man bursts into tears. But doctor... he says I am Pagliacci. Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.

Remember? Ohh, I wouldn't do that! Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. The past tense, I supposed you'd call it. Ha ha ha.

I thought, Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!

Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

Dan: We're looking at World War Three within the WEEK! I mean, what do we DO? The stakes are so high and humanity is so close to the edge... Rorschach: Some of us have always lived on edge, Daniel. It is possible to survive there if you observe rules: Just hang on by fingernails... and never look down.

and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout: 'Save us!'. And I'll look down and whisper: 'No.

It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade but always order without justice, without love or liberty, which cannot long postpone their world's descent to pandemonium. Authority's collapse sends cracks through bedroom, boardroom, church and school alike. All misrule. Equality and Freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely...

Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity.

Who watches the watchmen?

I don't think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn't be the person I am today if it wasn't for the opportunities the library gave me.

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

For you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.

The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives, your personalities, your whole world. All invented. All made up. All the wars, the romances. The masterpieces and the machines. And there's nothing here but a funny little twist of amino acids, playing a marvelous game of pretend.

It's not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn't be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.