"1963 was an insult to all the craftsmen who actually worked to produce American comics in that period. I was appalled—and deeply saddened—by the number of “fans” who embraced the series as a “brilliant evocation” of the comics I’d read as a kid. I tried to tell myself the “success” of 1963 merely served to indicate how hungry fans were for “old fashioned” superhero comic books. So much so that they would embrace travesty as tribute. But eventually I came to see this as yet another harbinger of what was to come—of the ever increasing legions who are embarassed to be caught reading superhero comics, and so would rather see them mocked (or changed beyond recognition, as with current M*****) than simply move on and make room for readers who are happy to enjoy them for what they are. (2005)"

"Tom Strong and the rest of the ABC bunch leave me cold for a lot of reasons. First—and I realize this is purely subjective, but what isn’t?—I find a smugness, a condescension that reads to me as nostalgia being done by someone who is not in the least bit nostalgic. Almost as if Moore sits down to write and flips his brain 180°, so he’s not really writing what he feels or what he likes, just the exact opposite of what he would usually write. Also, there is the whole pastiche/homage/whatever thing. I find this really annoying. Not just when Moore does it. I can look back on elements of my own work and be annoyed at myself for going down that path. I only did it on rare occasions, tho. Moore has turned it into a career. So much so, that in the post-Watchmen era I have trouble calling to mind much that he has done that was not based on someone else’s previous work. I am not the most original guy on the block, but at least when I do Superman, I do Superman. I suppose a lot of this could simply be the bad taste his earlier work left for me. All that tearing down and “deconstructionism.” All that revealing of the flaws and feet of clay, not a bit of which has served the industry in any positive way, and, in fact, has left huge scars across it, like the ones left in the landscape by open pit mining."

"One of the things that kept most comics from being monthly was that very few artists could produce 24 pages per month. Jack Kirby was very much the exception to the rule, but his towering presence at Marvel started to dictate the whole shape of the industry—and that's where problems set in! (2008)"

"Imagine, 24 pages of superhero adventures produced by the same writer and artist every month!! How did they do it? (What? By being professional about it? But that's too much like work!) (2008)"

"Pedophiles are almost certainly "born that way". Again, we go to evolutionary conditioning. Seek the youngest, strongest, most healthy, for breeding purposes. A sure (or as sure as it gets) way to guarantee the survival of your genes. Pedophilia also brings along a big heaping helping of learned responses, however. In a society like ours, where "normal" sex is considered by many to be filthy and disgusting, "abnormal" sex is of course even moreso. "Abnormal" in this case meaning anything—even simple physical attraction—that is not "age-appropriate", heterosexual, and strictly for procreation. Preferably missionary position. Thus, any confused individual who finds himself attracted to young girls is likely to find himself attracted to increasingly younger girls, as part of his pattern of self-loathing. So much emotional torment—in victims and victimizers—would surely be set aside if our society was sexually liberated enough to even be able to say "Sure, it's okay to be attracted to eleven year olds. Just don't do anything about it!" (2010)"

"Midnight on the water I saw the ocean's daughter Walking on a wave's chicane Staring as she called my name And I can't get it out of my head No, I can't get it out of my head Now my old world is gone for dead 'Cos I can't get it out of my head"

"At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself."

"I like the natural sound of a room. All the rooms have their own sound, so it's a matter of putting it where you like and seeing what it sounds like."

"When you get so down that you can't get up, and you want so much but you're all out of luck When you're so downhearted and misunderstood, just over and over and over, you could..."

"I've got a ticket to the moon. I'll be leaving here any day soon"

"As I gaze around at these strangers in town, I guess the only stranger is me. As I see what they've done to this place that was home, shame is all that I feel."

"The love, the echoes of long ago you needed the world to know They are in Xanadu The dream that came through a million years That lived on through all the tears, it came to Xanadu"

"A place where nobody dared to go the love that we came to know They call it Xanadu And now, open your eyes and see what we have made is real We are in Xanadu A million lights are dancing and there you are, a shooting star An everlasting world and you're here with me, eternally Xanadu"

"Underneath a starry sky Time was still but hours must really have rushed by I didn't realize But love was in your eyes I really should have gone But love went on and on"

"It was one of those nights One of those nights When you feel the world stop turning You were standing there There was music in the air I should have been away But I knew I had to stay"

"My Shangri-la has gone away, Faded like the Beatles on Hey Jude She seemed to drift out on the rain That came in somewhere softly from the blue."

"It's a livin' thing. It's a terrible thing to lose. It's a given thing. What a terrible thing to lose."

"Every good poet includes a critic; the reverse will not hold."

"Love can be founded upon nature only; or the appearance of it."

"It is a miserable thing to love where one hates; and yet it is not inconsistent."

"Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle size are alone entangled in."

"A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happens to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately."

"A large, branching, aged oak, is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects."

"Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent."

"Sloth views the tow'rs of fame with envious eyes; Desirous still, still impotent to rise."

"Theirs is the present who can praise the past."

"Let the gull'd fool the toil of war pursue, Where bleed the many to enrich the few."

"Oft has good-nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense."

"She pleas'd while distant, but, when near, she charm'd."

"Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome, at an inn."

"I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed."

"My banks they are furnish’d with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep."

"So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return."

"For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, yet so true."

"Perish the lover, whose imperfect flame Forgets one feature of the nymph he lov'd."

"I trimm'd my lamp, consumed the midnight oil."

"Love is a pleasing, but a various clime!"

"A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo."

"Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield."

"Pun-provoking thyme."

"Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty."

"Prudent men should lock up their motives, giving only their intimates a key."

"The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite."

"Second thoughts are oftentimes the very worst of all thoughts."

"Independency may be found in comparative, as well as absolute abundance: I mean when a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune."

"There seem near as many people that want passion as want reason."

"Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice: whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born."

"A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money."

"While we labour to subdue our passions, we should take care not to extinguish them. Subduing our passions, is disengaging ourselves from the world; to which however, Whilst we reside in it, we must always bear relation; and we may detach ourselves to such a degree as to pass an useless and insipid life, which we were not meant to do. Our existence here is at least one part of a system.A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind."

"Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are shewing you the grounds of it."