Grant Morrison Quotes

During this brief interval in the proceedings, we can take a pause to remind ourselves that there is an end to all this in sight and we’re almost halfway there. That doesn’t mean you can stop paying attention. In fact, you’ll have to try harder from here on in.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

Home is run no more.

Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.

Most of the people who do this kind of work, do it out of love, like the love you'd show to an ailing friend. (2004) Popimage interview

Pop, like Chronos the Titan, always eats its darlings.

Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

He can survive anywhere. Anytime. Surviving is what he does.

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

A couple of pills started me down the Yellow Brick Road. Vodka tonic, double. What’s the worst that can happen? I thought. I’ll shit myself and choke on my own vomit in the back of a taxi or onstage. At least I’ll die with dignity.

Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.

Our stupidity has turned the world into a hand grenade. Our greed has pulled the pin.

My work ethic is rigorous, brutal, and uncompromising. I've had my pension plans in place for a long time and I never spend more than I have or forget to pay my tax bills. My repressed, inner Protestant is an absolute Godsend in that respect. I also have lots of highly-paid and well-regarded work outside the comics field now and with Jupiter in the second house on my horoscope, I shouldn't have to worry too much about my dotage. I love the future and it loves me. (2003)

Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something persists, something that is always Superman.