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A rabbit out of a hat. Something out of nothing.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
It doesn’t even matter if we ever fire these missiles or not. They are having their effect upon us because there is a generation growing up now who cannot see past the final exclamation mark of a mushroom cloud.
Hollywood, television and film is not my prime area of interest. Because I would never have any control, working in those areas. It’s nice to get the money from a Hollywood project, but whatever they do with it, it would be their piece of work, and not mine.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.
We are all the aggregate of the ideas about us, including our own ideas about us.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
All beliefs are reality tunnels, to use Anton Wilson’s phrase.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Now they’re called ‘graphic novels’, which sounds sophisticated and you can charge a lot more for them. What appealed to me most about comics is no more, and these innocent and inventive and imaginative superhero characters from the ’40s, ‘50s, ‘60s are being recycled to a modern audience as if they were adult fare.
There are books that have devastated continents, destroyed thousands. What war hasn’t been a war of fiction?
De Abaitua interview (1998)
There is a certain amount of sham in shamanism. There is a certain amount of theatre.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Mental space and its existence is what makes things like remote viewing possible. There shouldn’t be any limit to it.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
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)
Magic is having a plan of all the tunnels, and seeing the overall condition in which they all work. Being aware of different possibilities.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
We all know what they mean, but at the same time it has to be said that this is not energy that is going to show up on an autometer.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
In conceptual space they are right next to one another. Distances can only be associative, even vast interstellar distances shouldn’t be a problem. Time would also function like this.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.
Promethea: Don't worry, some symbols always means the same thing...and the archetype of wisdom is eternal.
Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
V for Vendetta (1989)
I suppose any form of art can be said to be propaganda for a state of mind. Inevitably, if you are creating a painting, or writing a story, you are making propaganda, in a sense, for the way that you feel, the way that you think, the way that you see the world.
Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)
Do they control our destinies? No, they don’t. They are nowhere near that powerful or organised.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
I suppose I first got involved in radical politics as a matter of course, during the late 1960s when it was a part of the culture.
Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)