Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful. Alan Moore More Quotes by Alan Moore More Quotes From Alan Moore To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. Alan Moore lazy film book Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss. The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten. Alan Moore childhood dark memories If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice. Alan Moore multiple-choice choices past I have so very much. I have so very little. Alan Moore littles Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers. Alan Moore whim murderer Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored. Alan Moore phantoms geography mind I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself. Alan Moore taught age school What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty? Alan Moore struggle mean children I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion. Alan Moore space stars names Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. Alan Moore patterns imagine long So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. Alan Moore train-of-thought finding-yourself past In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain. Alan Moore brain writing thinking Never despair. Never surrender. Alan Moore never-surrender surrender despair No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise. Alan Moore comic-art rorschach faces The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth] Alan Moore swarms multiplying vendetta I should just keep me mouth shut, I just upset people. Alan Moore upset mouths people 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. Alan Moore holes lonely world There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money. Alan Moore inverse imagination Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse. Alan Moore responsibility power war The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself. Alan Moore responsibility roots thinking
