--- title: "7 Mad Quotes By Alan Moore" description: "7 Mad quotes by Alan Moore. Plus more from Alan Moore and more Mad sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/510/alan-moore-583_functional_if-you-re-functional-it-doesn-t-matter-i_411650.jpg" --- > [If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/if-you-re-functional-it-doesn-t-matter-if-you-re-mad/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/510/alan-moore-583_functional_if-you-re-functional-it-doesn-t-matter-i_411650.jpg) > [On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/on-my-fortieth-birthday-rather-than-merely-bore-my-friends-by-having/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8f/alan-moore-583_birthday_on-my-fortieth-birthday-rather-than-mere_535258.jpg) > [If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/if-we-can-come-up-with-all-sorts-of-imaginative-ways-in-which-people/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8e/alan-moore-583_come-up_if-we-can-come-up-with-all-sorts-of-imag_661239.jpg) > [The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/the-central-question-is-is-this-guy-right-or-is-he-mad-what-do-you/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/452/alan-moore-583_anarchist_the-central-question-is-is-this-guy-righ_874105.jpg) > [As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/as-far-as-i-can-see-it-s-not-important-that-we-have-free-will-just-as/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15a/alan-moore-583_free_as-far-as-i-can-see-it-s-not-important-t_1132133.jpg) > [I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/i-ve-known-a-lot-of-people-go-mad-over-the-years-and-it-is-more/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f74/alan-moore-583_antithesis_i-ve-known-a-lot-of-people-go-mad-over-t_1372398.jpg) > [The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/the-magician-to-some-degree-is-trying-to-drive-him-or-herself-mad-in/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/831/alan-moore-583_controlled_the-magician-to-some-degree-is-trying-to_2453444.jpg) ## Other authors on Mad ## More by Alan Moore > [I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/i-think-that-storytelling-and-creation-are-very-close-to-what-the/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) > [To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/to-some-degree-satanism-is-purely-a-kind-of-disease-of-christianity/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) > [There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/there-has-been-a-rather-unpleasant-sensibility-apparent-in-frank/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) > [I felt, if I'm going to react I might as well over react.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/i-felt-if-i-m-going-to-react-i-might-as-well-over-react/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) > [“Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/come-dry-your-eyes-for-you-are-life-rarer-than-a-quark-and/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) > [Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/now-everything-is-wonderful-and-hazardous-and-nothing-s-hypothetical/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) > [If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/if-you-look-at-that-incredible-burst-of-fantastic-characters-that/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) > [In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/in-many-ways-my-entire-graphic-novel-career-was-a-long-diversion/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) > [I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/i-was-kind-of-a-selfish-child-who-always-wanted-things-his-way-and-i/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) > [Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/magic-is-a-state-of-mind-it-is-often-portrayed-as-very-black-and/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) > [“Above, great constellations wheeled to which our bonfire sparks ascended in their tiny mimicry”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/above-great-constellations-wheeled-to-which-our-bonfire-sparks/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) > [“You're my only remaining link to the world”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/you-re-my-only-remaining-link-to-the-world/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) > [Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/nothing-ends-adrian-nothing-ever-ends/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) > [On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/on-the-one-occasion-where-i-did-try-writing-a-screenplay-i-found-the/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) > [“The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/the-clothes-you-re-wearing-the-room-the-house-the-city-that-you-re-in/) [Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mad/alan-moore/#itemlist", "name": "7 Mad Quotes By Alan Moore", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alan Moore" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/if-you-re-functional-it-doesn-t-matter-if-you-re-mad/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/510/alan-moore-583_functional_if-you-re-functional-it-doesn-t-matter-i_411650.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/510/alan-moore-583_functional_if-you-re-functional-it-doesn-t-matter-i_411650.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/510/alan-moore-583_functional_if-you-re-functional-it-doesn-t-matter-i_411650.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.” — Alan Moore", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alan Moore" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/on-my-fortieth-birthday-rather-than-merely-bore-my-friends-by-having/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8f/alan-moore-583_birthday_on-my-fortieth-birthday-rather-than-mere_535258.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8f/alan-moore-583_birthday_on-my-fortieth-birthday-rather-than-mere_535258.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8f/alan-moore-583_birthday_on-my-fortieth-birthday-rather-than-mere_535258.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife…” — Alan Moore", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the problem is with coming up with imaginative ways in which people can procreate.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alan Moore" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/if-we-can-come-up-with-all-sorts-of-imaginative-ways-in-which-people/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8e/alan-moore-583_come-up_if-we-can-come-up-with-all-sorts-of-imag_661239.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8e/alan-moore-583_come-up_if-we-can-come-up-with-all-sorts-of-imag_661239.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8e/alan-moore-583_come-up_if-we-can-come-up-with-all-sorts-of-imag_661239.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the…” — Alan Moore", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The central question is, is this guy right? 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