I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary. Alan Moore More Quotes by Alan Moore More Quotes From Alan Moore I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way. Alan Moore pain solitude lonely Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining. Alan Moore luxury order long There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence. Alan Moore illusion coincidence They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away. Alan Moore vendetta boards games The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville. Alan Moore vaudeville stage world I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family. Alan Moore black kings sheep I felt, if I'm going to react I might as well over react. Alan Moore wells ifs might It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one. Alan Moore three rose years It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore. Alan Moore mean-spirited cold mean Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that. Alan Moore taken real long None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME. Alan Moore locked locked-up rorschach American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore. Alan Moore rorschach glasses bottles Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket. Alan Moore dust self liars Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead. Alan Moore wells comedian The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a properly anarchist solution. I didn't want to tell people what to think, I just wanted to tell people to think and consider some of these admittedly extreme little elements, which nevertheless do recur fairly regularly throughout human history. Alan Moore mad people thinking They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds. Alan Moore men war world I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography. Alan Moore heroin cockroaches children Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical. Alan Moore hypothetical wonderful There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person. Alan Moore buried ridiculous ordinary In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past. Alan Moore stress reality past
