Michael Moorcock Quotes

I'll be seeing you," said Jerry.
Koutrouboussis chuckled to himself. "At this rate you'll be raising me, too.

Stagnation’s no substitute for stability.

From the ceiling came the miserable, neurotic drone of the Everly Brothers. He let it play, deepening his mood. If a mood was worth having, he thought, it was worth having profoundly.

The barbarians don’t come from outside the walls any more, do they?

From beyond the door came the sound of people at prayer, led by the droning voices of the priests. Even the plane seemed to be praying. Una went to find a parachute before they reached Windermere.

The schizophrenic condition finds its most glorious expression in Hinduism," remarked Professor Hira. "Whereas Christianity is an expression of the much less interesting paranoid frame of reference. Paranoia is rarely heroic, in the mythical sense, at least.

Is there anything sadder, I wonder, than an assassin with nobody left to kill?

Technology is potential freedom from brutality.

Time to be moving; moves to be timing.

It's like prostitution."
"It's a lot like prostitution, isn't it?"
"You see nothing wrong…?"
"The customer's always right."
"And you have no," she shuddered, "ethics?"
"I give the public what it wants, if that's what you mean.

The poor man has sacrificed himself for others, but he could not help resenting them from time to time.

Entropy's setting in. Or so they say."
"Why should that be true?"
"It's Time—it's all used up."
"This is metaphysical nonsense!"
"Very likely.

You look ahead."
"I look around. Ahead's here already.

Perhaps I should not say so, but it occasionally crosses my mind to wonder why, in all the mystic cosmologies, even in some of the modern so-called parasciences, our own age is always described as the age of chaos and contention. A comment, my logical side argues, on why people turn to mysticism. The past age was always better."
"Childhood is the happiest time of life except when you're a child," said Jerry.
"I understand you. True.

You fought well and you fought for justice."
"Justice?" Hawkmoon called after him as he left the room. "Is there such a thing?"
"It can be manufactured in small quantities," Fank told him. "But we have to work hard, fight well and use great wisdom to produce just a tiny amount.