The quotations of

Alan Moore

British comic book author

born 1953

14 quotes, most often on Comedy, Writing and Ideas.

Consciousness is unquantifiable, a ghost in the machine, barely considered real at all, though in a sense this flickering mosaic of awareness is the only true reality that we can ever know.
What Is Reality?
- Philosophy
There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.
“Down Among the Dead Men”, Swamp Thing Annual #2, 1985
- Writing
Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.
“The Mustard magazine interview” (January 2005)
- Life & Death
- Writing
Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
V for Vendetta (1989)
- Happiness
There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
About the film adaptation of V for Vendetta, in an MTV interview “Alan Moore: The Last Angry Man”
- Money
We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.
Watchmen (1986–1987)
- Philosophy
What occultism needs is someone to open the window, it’s too stuffy and it smells.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
- Comedy
I don’t distinguish between magic and art.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
- Art
To me, when we talk about the world, we are talking about our ideas of the world. Our ideas of organisation, our different religions, our different economic systems, our ideas about it are the world.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
- Ideas
The path led out of rational confines. When you start thinking about art and creativity, rationality is not big enough to contain it all.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
- Art
Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists and ham-fisted clowns.
“The Mindscape of Alan Moore” (2003)
- Comedy
Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map.
“What Is Reality?” (written for television)
- Ideas
The schizophrenic is probably having exactly the same experience as the magician but has no context in which to understand it.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
- Experience
The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy or the grey aliens or the 12-foot reptiloids from another dimension that are in control. The truth is more frightening, nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.
“The Mindscape of Alan Moore” (2003)
- Fear
- Truth & Lies

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