Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do. ”

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail. ”

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

When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual. ”

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. ”