Quotes from Michael Moorcock

It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.

Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.

P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.

Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

Time is the enemy of identity

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

Everything means nothing that is the only truth.

But people may do great good accidentally, though with evil intentions - conversely people may do great evil though having the best of intentions.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A good death is better than a poor one.

A moment later, the world's first all-purpose human being strode eastward, whistling. 'A tasty world,' it reflected cheerfully. 'A very tasty world.' 'You said it, Cornelius!

Leda: 'I would rather become an international adventuress and bring down kings and emperors.' Maxim: 'But this is the age of republics and democracies. It's much harder to seduce a committee.

Religion was the creation of fear. Knowledge destroys fear. Without fear, religion can't survive.

I suppose it was a mistake to sketch in a background for the movie, in which I described a likely mix of people in a late-Roman settlement, amongst them people from Africa and the Near East. 'You mean they had black people back then!' was actually what my boss exclaimed when he read that. 'Could Lancelot's sidekick be black?

We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are.

We live in a world where many kinds of regression dignify themselves with the mantle of progress.

If we remain adaptable, we remain strong. If we force others to accept our traditions and values, we ultimately grow weak…

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation.

Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done...

a society dedicated solely to the preservation of her past, soon has only her past to sell.