Alan Moore

"Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings."

"Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception."

"I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality."

"Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!"

"Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen."