Quotes About Moore

All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it.

I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of fabric is governed by gravity.

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

his life. And Moore swears that you rode out

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making.

I just went and saw 'Crazy, Stupid, Love.' Julianne Moore - I've been in love with her since 'Boogie Nights.' But also, 'The Big Lebowski.'

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

I was seeing more stars than Patrick Moore; he didn't half give me a sore fucking whack on the nut.

Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.

The phone rang about five minutes later. Powell Moore wanted to know if the committee's second statement had made the paper. Bernstein said it had, as well as Mitchell's additional comments on the matter. Moore sounded worried. What had the Attorney General said? Bernstein read him the insert and told him it was already being set in type. "Oh," said Moore.

When I first opened this book and saw all those scholarly footnotes, my heart leapt up as though I saw a host of golden daffodils.

I envy Christ, he had a disease named after him

Aretino was a satirist on the noble if futile quest to reform his corrupt society by shoving its face in its worse excesses. (Futile because has any society ever reformed itself after being shown the error of its ways by a satirist? anywhere? ever?)

Sorel's novels deserve to be revived, but Polexander can be left in its watery grave.

Maybe it's a sick fantasy of mine, but I am really looking forward to a debate between a general and a deserter. Plus, I really want to hear President Bush have to say, "Yes, General, No, General."

Unlike myself, she has the accident of style rather than the intention.

The story made me smile and I wondered if it made me smile because I wanted him to like me.

He smiled. 'You think I'm a racist, like all cops.' He didn't seem to mind.

What are you doing?" I whispered. Even though I knew. It was as if I had to pretend that I did not know what he was about to do to me.

Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake.

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.