Quotes by Alan Moore

I really cant be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, thats nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.

I love the smell of paper in the morning it smells like victory.

Dont leave home without your sword - your intellect.

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

Ive developed a theory that theres an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if youve got lots of imagination then you dont really need much money, and if youve got lots of money then you wont bother with much imagination.

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: Its like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

Im remote from most technology to the point that Im kind of Amish.

In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didnt have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. Thats not the case anymore.

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and youll find its very different!

“Its funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if theyre related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that theres a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.”