Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful. Alan Moore More Quotes by Alan Moore More Quotes From Alan Moore 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. Alan Moore growing-up boys school Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're working on chapter three of your masterwork, chapter one is already in print. You can't go back and suddenly decide to make this character a woman, or have this one fall out of a window. Alan Moore three character fall Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots. Alan Moore cereal television breakfast Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves. I apparently know some people who try to achieve this by logging off or going without their Twitter or Facebook for a limited period. Alan Moore space believe people Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights. Alan Moore giving-up rights years Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out. Alan Moore men war people There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time. Alan Moore frank has-beens long You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it. Alan Moore scum-of-the-earth wish hands For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same. Alan Moore one-thing certain You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other. Alan Moore reverse way Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal? Alan Moore chasms doe heart Anarchy wears two faces, both Creator and Destroyer. Thus Destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators can then build a better world. Rubble, once achieved makes further ruins' means irrelevant. Away with our explosives, then! Away with our Destroyers! They have no place within our better world. But let us raise a toast to all our bombers, all our bastards, most unlovely and most unforgivable, let's drink their health, then meet with them no more. Alan Moore bombers two mean It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it. Alan Moore muse brilliant ideas Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends. Alan Moore ends The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside. Alan Moore real hurt past Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. It's true. She's aging more noticeably every day — while I am standing still. I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives. Alan Moore tired here-i-am people I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us. Alan Moore lasts giving world This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos. Alan Moore vendetta anarchy chaos My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot. Alan Moore dear imagination beautiful While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Alan Moore used may conversation
