Alan Moore Quotes

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• In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.
• It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.
• Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
• London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.
• On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.
• Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.
• The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.
• There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just…
• There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.
• A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very…
• As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're…
• I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they…
• 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…
• One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in…
• 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…
• 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…
• Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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