Grant Morrison
Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.Collection: Gotham
It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?Collection: Sprinkles
Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it.Collection: Sense Of Humor
This is the end of our sentenceCollection: Ends
I’m a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! - Gideon StargraveCollection: Real
All I know is that you won't come back until they're all dead. 'Eternity.' Every last one of them. Every man. Every woman. Every child. Global massacre. I dream about that day. A planet of corpsesCollection: Dream
Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity.Collection: Country
I think any writer coming on to Batman should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.Collection: Character
I don't like to think of my readership as "fans," a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.Collection: Thinking
I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city. Horror stories you see. I tell you I didn't have to look far for material. Everywhere I looked, there were stories hidden there in the dark corners. . . . I wrote and still there were more. . . . No one would publish them. 'Too horrible,' they said. 'Sick mind,' they said. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city but the horror is too big and it goes on forever.Collection: Writing
It’s mostly just you have to convince yourself that there’s nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!Collection: Rooms
I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words. I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience.Collection: Grief
My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.Collection: Accomplishment
Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something.Collection: Girlfriend
Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.Collection: Thinking
I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I.Collection: Morning
Who needs girls when you've got comics?Collection: Girl
It's always interesting to see what the real enthusiasts think, but they're rarely representative of the tastes of the wider audience, so I tend to write for myself, for an imagined smart 14-year-old, and for a couple of friends who are still big comics fans.Collection: Couple
I AM happy”. They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language hypnotizes us and traps us in little labelled boxes ()Collection: Pain
Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home.Collection: Time
We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.Collection: Children
He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.Collection: Progress
Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another.Collection: Change
Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.Collection: Witty
I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story.Collection: Trying
I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always get my best ideas the closer I come to the end of a project, after I've lived with it for a while.Collection: Space
And when it's all done, when there's no one left you'll come back for me. And tell me who I am and why I have to do what I do. And explain 'Eternity.' You'll come backCollection: Who I Am
I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.Collection: Knowing
I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.Collection: Cutting
Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you.Collection: Dream
Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.Collection: Writing
Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.Collection: Reading
I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.Collection: Art
These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.Collection: Character
It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day.Collection: Grateful
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd.Collection: Perception
He felt the hot impact of bullets. He heard the sound of chopping meat. He thought 'is that me?' . . . and then he opened his eyes.Collection: Eye
I write constantly, so it flows from one project to the next, and I would edit everything endlessly if I had the chance. I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.Collection: Writing
Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof that the universe is a drooling idiot with no fashion sense - Mr Nobody on the fundamental philosophy of the Brotherhood of DADACollection: Fashion
The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.Collection: Beautiful
I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.Collection: Evil
The world gets more like Disneyland every day, and it's the same the other way round. I can't explain what I know. Try explaining RED to a DOG and see how fast he gets bored.Collection: Dog
If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.Collection: Real
I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like territory of a comics universe, where entire histories can be erased by a strong enough super-sneeze.Collection: Strong
I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.Collection: Running
I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.Collection: Upset
I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.Collection: Writing
I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise - and to be honest, I'm no academic, so I tend to use these words, like in Alice In Wonderland, to mean what I want them to mean rather than what they actually do mean.Collection: Mean
Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can't piss upwards on people.Collection: People