Alan Moore

I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.

I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

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.

I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype.

There's nothing that could get me interested in Hollywood again. And, increasingly, there's nothing that could get me interested in the American comics industry again.

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

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 the world.

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

I love films that are made with almost no budget.

In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.