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Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity. -- Grant Morrison
Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself. -- Grant Morrison
Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words. -- Grant Morrison
Hell is only the Cringe Eternal and the Place of our Self's Undoing. When Nietzsche proclaimed "God is Dead!" he forgot to add that Satan is also dead and we are free from all that antique tat. -- Grant Morrison
Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world. -- Grant Morrison
I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like territory of a comics universe, where entire histories can be erased by a strong enough super-sneeze. -- Grant Morrison
And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death. -- Grant Morrison
All it takes is one wrong turn. And there's always one wrong turn. -- Grant Morrison
When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM? -- Grant Morrison
It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself. -- Grant Morrison
We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens. -- Grant Morrison
Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another. -- Grant Morrison
Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation. -- Grant Morrison
I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read. -- Grant Morrison
Einstein was wrong! IM the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW! -- Grant Morrison
Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea. -- Grant Morrison
I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It's only a doll house after all. Anyway, I don't mind. I like dolls.
Particularly the live ones. -- Grant Morrison
I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity -- Grant Morrison
He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato. -- Grant Morrison
And when it's all done, when there's no one left you'll come back for me. And tell me who I am and why I have to do what I do. And explain 'Eternity.' You'll come back -- Grant Morrison
The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world. -- Grant Morrison
Don't patronize me or I'll break your face - Damian Wayne (Prime Earth) -- Grant Morrison
Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine. -- Grant Morrison
I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story. -- Grant Morrison
Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect. -- Grant Morrison
I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there. -- Grant Morrison
I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always get my best ideas the closer I come to the end of a project, after I've lived with it for a while. -- Grant Morrison
Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something. -- Grant Morrison
Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof that the universe is a drooling idiot with no fashion sense - Mr Nobody on the fundamental philosophy of the Brotherhood of DADA -- Grant Morrison
I'm just an actor. My performance is not more important than your life. Stop watching. We're false images designed to sell you products by exploiting your insecurities. To make you spectators in life, not participants. -- Grant Morrison
I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste. -- Grant Morrison
So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell. -- Grant Morrison
Reality and unreality have no clear distinction in our present circumstances. -- Grant Morrison
It's always interesting to see what the real enthusiasts think, but they're rarely representative of the tastes of the wider audience, so I tend to write for myself, for an imagined smart 14-year-old, and for a couple of friends who are still big comics fans. -- Grant Morrison
I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star.
Illuminated woman am I. -- Grant Morrison
If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa. -- Grant Morrison
Batman knew what it was like to trip balls without seriously losing his shit, and that savoir faire added another layer to his outlaw sexiness and alluring aura of decadence and wealth. -- Grant Morrison
I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form. -- Grant Morrison
The world gets more like Disneyland every day, and it's the same the other way round. I can't explain what I know. Try explaining RED to a DOG and see how fast he gets bored. -- Grant Morrison
One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery. -- Grant Morrison
There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process. -- Grant Morrison
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be. -- Grant Morrison
I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God. -- Grant Morrison
Ours is an overpopulated, under educated, shithole in the throes of mass extinctions - it's a wonderful world. -- Grant Morrison
Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie. -- Grant Morrison
Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa. -- Grant Morrison
Superman loves everyone. He's like Jesus except he punches people. -- Grant Morrison
Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay. -- Grant Morrison
It's stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening to long-distance radio. All those things lost now or broken. Can you remember? Can you remember that feeling? Perhaps I ought to go to a doctor. -- Grant Morrison
The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II? -- Grant Morrison
But a far more virulent strain survived. It's having sex with your thoughts. You'll give birth to increasingly more monstrous ideas. -- Grant Morrison
Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained. -- Grant Morrison
Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket. -- Grant Morrison
And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. Just fo feel. Just to feel something. -- Grant Morrison
A thought robot activated by the tremendous energies unleashed during collisions of fundamental opposing qualities. A new fusion process powered by ... 'dualites'? No. There are no dualities. Only symmetries. Final Crisis: Superman Beyond -- Grant Morrison
I didn't quit drinking. I stopped drinking shitty alcohol with assholes. And that, my friend, was the healthiest choice I've ever made. -- Grant Morrison
It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat? -- Grant Morrison
Who needs girls when you've got comics? -- Grant Morrison
Our stupidity has turned the world into a hand grenade. Our greed has pulled the pin. -- Grant Morrison
I love 'Batman.' I love the Adam West 'Batman.' I love the animated 'Batman.' The character of Batman can encompass any interpretation, which is what makes that character so brilliant and why it's survived so many different media. -- Grant Morrison
Sometimes ... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass ... and we are you. -- Grant Morrison
The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies. -- Grant Morrison
Amid all the bangs and the drama and the grand passions, it's kindness and just ordinary goodness that stands out in the end. -- Grant Morrison
Cassandra Nova impersonating Xavier: Imagine the responsibility of all that destructive potential. The power to crack the firmament and extinguish suns ... Imagine that in the wrong hands. -- Grant Morrison
I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message boards, but there are so few of them, as a percentage of the buying audience, that I can't allow their opinions to dictate story direction. -- Grant Morrison
Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams. -- Grant Morrison
mmmmen stink! bossss stink! hungry -- Grant Morrison
Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think. -- Grant Morrison
There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always. -- Grant Morrison
Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home. -- Grant Morrison
I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week. -- Grant Morrison
It's mostly just you have to convince yourself that there's nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing! -- Grant Morrison
Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases. -- Grant Morrison
The first light had cast the first shadow. -- Grant Morrison
I think any writer coming on to 'Batman' should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say. -- Grant Morrison
All I know is that you won't come back until they're all dead. 'Eternity.' Every last one of them. Every man. Every woman. Every child. Global massacre. I dream about that day. A planet of corpses -- Grant Morrison
CYCLOPS: Emma ... I knew you wouldn't turn your back on us.
EMMA: Sweet as you are, I didn't come back for you Scott. I came for my handbag. Lucky for you, this is a Louis Vuitton. -- Grant Morrison
I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies. -- Grant Morrison
Words are ugly when they travel in packs. -- Grant Morrison
From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism. -- Grant Morrison
I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader. -- Grant Morrison
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. -- Grant Morrison
I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life. -- Grant Morrison
I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols. -- Grant Morrison
Routine is important, i think.a good routine diverts the mind from morbid imaginings. -- Grant Morrison
I don't like to think of my readership as 'fans,' a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with. -- Grant Morrison
I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires. -- Grant Morrison
Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods. -- Grant Morrison
Animal Man: 'Listen, just tell me one thing: am I REAL or what?'
Grant Morrison: 'Of COURSE you're real! We wouldn't be here talking if you weren't real.
'You existed long before I wrote about you and, if you're lucky, you'll still be young when I'm old or dead.
'You're more real than I am. -- Grant Morrison
Only nothing is impossible. -- Grant Morrison
It's not so much that history is simply cyclical, it seems to progress via recursive, repeated fractal patterns with minute variations. -- Grant Morrison
I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence. -- Grant Morrison
The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it. -- Grant Morrison
Kipling: Where's your sense of humor?
Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it ... -- Grant Morrison
The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity. -- Grant Morrison
I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle. -- Grant Morrison
It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic. -- Grant Morrison
I really think this is it...
Third time lucky.
This is the one...
...this is going to change everything. -- Grant Morrison
I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer. -- Grant Morrison
Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker -- Grant Morrison
Laugh and the world laughs with you! -- Grant Morrison
It's so horrible to realize you're just the same as everyone else, isn't it? -- Grant Morrison
The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations. -- Grant Morrison
Of course I'm a threat. Why? Did you think for a moment that I wasn't? - Emma Frost -- Grant Morrison
Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in. -- Grant Morrison
He can survive anywhere. Anytime. Surviving is what he does. -- Grant Morrison
The multiverse has natural defenses none of you could have imagined. No one %$%$ with the judge of all evil. -- Grant Morrison
Only a bitter little adolescent boy could confuse realism with pessimism. -- Grant Morrison
I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies. -- Grant Morrison
He felt the hot impact of bullets. He heard the sound of chopping meat. He thought 'is that me?' ... and then he opened his eyes. -- Grant Morrison
Sometimes it's only madness that makes us what we are. -- Grant Morrison
Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted. -- Grant Morrison
Doomed planet.
Desperate scientists.
Last hope.
Kindly couple. -- Grant Morrison
Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can't piss upwards on people. -- Grant Morrison
This is the end of our sentence -- Grant Morrison
A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries -- Grant Morrison
Magneto Was Right' - Quentin Quire -- Grant Morrison
All is one in Darkseid. The mighty body is my church. When I command your surrender, I speak with three billion voices ... -- Grant Morrison
Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright. -- Grant Morrison
I won't tell you again! Don't look back! In hell you never look back! -- Grant Morrison
Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who? -- Grant Morrison
We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude, hopeful attempt to talk about how we all might feel on that day of great power, and great responsibility. -- Grant Morrison
Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way. -- Grant Morrison
Somewhere in our Darkest Nights we made up a story about a Man who will never let us down. -- Grant Morrison
I'm a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! - Gideon Stargrave -- Grant Morrison
Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in. -- Grant Morrison
These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music. -- Grant Morrison
A bullet in the right place can change the world. -- Grant Morrison