Alan Moore
Alan Moore
Alan Mooreis an English writer primarily known for his work in graphic novels including Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. Frequently described as the best graphic novel writer in history, he has been called "one of the most important British writers of the last fifty years". He has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, Translucia Baboon, and The Original Writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 November 1953
mean two bombers
Anarchy wears two faces, both creator and destroyer. Thus destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators then can build another world. Rubble, once achieved, makes further ruins' means irrelevant. Away with our explosives, then! Away with our destroyers! They have no place within our better world. But let us raise a toast to all our bombers, all our bastards, most unlovely and most unforgivable. Let's drink their health... then meet with them no more.
giving world lasts
I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.
might wells ifs
I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!
believe everyday stuff-happens
I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.
skeletons jumping closets
It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.
simple awful
Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.
years rose three
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.
stress past reality
In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past
ordinary ridiculous buried
There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.
heart doe chasms
Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?
regret shadow steps
I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.
rorschach back-when quitting
Rorschach: Used to come here often, back when we were partners. Dreiberg: Oh. Uh, yeah... yeah, those were great times, Rorschach. Great times. Whatever happened to them? Rorschach: [exiting] You quit.
mind body different
I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.
stars names space
I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.