Michael Moorcock Quotations

If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains...

Time is the enemy of identity

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful