I don't consider myself as a bad person, on the whole I consider myself a good person, I'm good to my parents. I treat my girl right ,,, take her out and buy her stuff. And I go to church every Sunday, But I've decided that just once I want to do a terrible thing. I mean a really seriously bad thing. 'Cause, ya know, like, we're put on this earth with free will. We can choose to do this or that. We can choose to be good or bad. But sometimes I think most people are good and not bad only because they're scared they might go to jail or hell or someplace. Some guy once said: "Anything done out of fear has no moral value." Well, I think that's right. I figure the only way you can be perfect is if you've tried been good, and you've tried being bad, and being good feels better.

— Alan Moore

I don't consider myself as a bad person, on the whole I consider myself a good person, I'm good to my parents. I treat my girl right ,,, take her out and buy her stuff. And I go to church every Sunday, But I've decided that just once I want to do a terrible thing. I mean a really seriously bad thing. 'Cause, ya know, like, we're put on this earth with free will. We can choose to do this or that. We can choose to be good or bad. But sometimes I think most people are good and not bad only because they're scared they might go to jail or hell or someplace. Some guy once said: "Anything done out of fear has no moral value" Well, I think that's right. I figure the only way you can be perfect is if you've tried been good, and you've tried being good, and you've tried being bad, and being good feels better.

— Alan Moore

I don’t think people realize how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose anymore. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

— Alan Moore

If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.

— Alan Moore

If we loved Steve Alert, really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save his happiness and comfort, we'd lobotomize him.

— Alan Moore

If you wear black, then kindly, irritating strangers will touch your arm consolingly and inform you that the world keeps on turning. They're right. It does. However much you beg it to stop. It turns and lets grenadine spill over the horizon, sends hard bars of gold through my window and I wake up and feel happy for three seconds and then I remember. It turns and tips people out of their beds and into their cars, their offices, an avalanche of tiny men and women tumbling through life... All trying not to think about what's waiting at the bottom. Sometimes it turns and sends us reeling into each other's arms. We cling tight, excited and laughing, strangers thrown together on a moving fun house floor. Intoxicated by the motion we forget all the risks. And then the world turns... And somebody falls off... And oh God, it's such a long way down. Numb with shock, we can only stand and watch as they fall away from us, gradually getting smaller... Receding in our memories until they're no longer visible. We gather in cemeteries, tense and silent as if for listening for the impact; the splash of a pebble dropped into a dark well, trying to measure its depth. Trying to measure how far we have to fall. No impact comes; no splash. The moment passes. The world turns, and we turn away, getting on with our lives... Wrapping ourselves in comforting banalities to keep us warm against the cold." Time's a great healer."" At least it was quick."" The world keeps turning."Oh, Alec!—Alec's dead.

— Alan Moore

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.

— Alan Moore

I love the smell of paper in the morning it smells like victory.

— Alan Moore

I'm 65 years old. Every day the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

— Alan Moore

I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.

— Alan Moore