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Do they control our destinies? No, they don’t. They are nowhere near that powerful or organised.

— Alan Moore De Abaitua interview (1998)

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You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.

There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.

Swamp Thing (1983)

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists and ham-fisted clowns.

The Mindscape of Alan Moore (2003)

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