Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

— Alan Moore

Eva Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Eva Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is

— Alan Moore

Evening work is economical. Power comes most cheaply by night.

— Alan Moore

Everybody is special. Everybody. Furthermore, everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Furthermore, everybody has their story to tell.

— Alan Moore

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

— Alan Moore

Happiness is a prison, Eva. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all

— Alan Moore

His sister, in a big turquoise Angora sweater, leaned upon the wood frame of the open nursery door, anxiously looking out to see if he was really going to show, beaming and waving like a pastel colored TV Muppet when she spotted him.

— Alan Moore

How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?

— Alan Moore

I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each other's pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way.

— Alan Moore

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

— Alan Moore