Grant Morrison

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

— Grant Morrison

I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read.

— Grant Morrison

Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.

— Grant Morrison

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

— Grant Morrison

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it...

— Grant Morrison

Superman loves everyone. He's like Jesus except he punches people.

— Grant Morrison

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

— Grant Morrison

I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I.

— Grant Morrison

“You're much stronger than you think you are. Trust me.”

— Grant Morrison

“Self-awareness: there is the black worm in the apple. Our curse is to know there's something terribly wrong with us.”

— Grant Morrison

I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse,…

— Grant Morrison

And when it's all done, when there's no one left you'll come back for me. And tell me who I am and…

— Grant Morrison

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever…

— Grant Morrison

I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not…

— Grant Morrison

I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always…

— Grant Morrison

“CYCLOPS: Emma… I knew you wouldn’t turn your back on us. EMMA: Sweet as you are, I didn’t come back for you…

— Grant Morrison

“People look at us and see the poor and the mad, but they're looking at us through the bars of their cages.…

— Grant Morrison

“You have given them an ideal to aspire to, embodied their highest aspirations. They will race, and stumble, and fall and crawl…and…

— Grant Morrison

I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection…

— Grant Morrison

Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no…

— Grant Morrison

I love 'Batman.' I love the Adam West 'Batman.' I love the animated 'Batman.' The character of Batman can encompass any interpretation,…

— Grant Morrison

With Marvel and DC, you're working with their pre-established fictional universes and characters. At those places, you're working with characters who will…

— Grant Morrison

I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless…

— Grant Morrison

Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor…

— Grant Morrison

The more I think about it, the more I realize that schools are just factories for turning out robots, that's all. They…

— Grant Morrison

“We are the hands and eyes and ears, the sensitive probing feelers through which the emergent, intelligent universe comes to know its…

— Grant Morrison

American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But…

— Grant Morrison

I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the…

— Grant Morrison

“All the comics are sigils. "Sigil" as a word is out of date. All this magic stuff needs new terminology because it's…

— Grant Morrison

“My interest in comics was scribbled over with a revived, energized passion for clothes, records, and music. I'd wandered in late to…

— Grant Morrison

“The Hoodmen are far from being the worst of the servants of the Cult of the Unwritten Book, but they are among…

— Grant Morrison

“To know that we are only angels weighed down by filth, free of guilt? The bacteria in our bellies are responsible for…

— Grant Morrison

“Individual humans are not super, but the organism of which we are all tiny cellular parts is most certainly that. The life-form…

— Grant Morrison

I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.

— Grant Morrison

“Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods.”

— Grant Morrison

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

— Grant Morrison

“Don't patronize me or I'll break your face - Damian Wayne (Prime Earth)”

— Grant Morrison

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

— Grant Morrison

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

— Grant Morrison

I won't tell you again! Don't look back! In hell you never look back!

— Grant Morrison