Grant Morrison

"Truthfully, the job security in this business is uncertain, the hours are long, long and lonely, the audience is increasingly small, fickle and dissatisfied, like 3 of the 7 Dwarves. Respect is nonexistent, success fleeting; youd be better off in a boy band, where at least youd get laid before they made you obsolete. (2004) Popimage interview"

"The comics medium is a very specialized area of the Arts, home to many rare and talented blooms and flowering imaginations and it breaks my heart to see so many of our best and brightest bowing down to the same market pressures which drive lowest-common-denominator blockbuster movies and television cop shows. Lets see if we can call time on this trend by demanding and creating big, wild comics which stretch our imaginations. Lets make living breathing, sprawling adventures filled with mind-blowing images of things unseen on Earth. Lets make artefacts that are not faux-games or movies but something other, something so rare and strange it might as well be a window into another universe because thats what it is. (2004) Popimage interview"

"People say kids cant understand the difference between fact and fiction, but thats bullshit. Kids understand that real crabs dont sing like the ones in The Little Mermaid. But you give an adult fiction, and the adult starts asking really fucking dumb questions like How does Superman fly? How do those eyebeams work? Who pumps the Batmobile’s tires? Its a fucking made-up story, you idiot! Nobody pumps the tires! Grant Morrison: Psychedelic Superhero, 2011"

"(On DC: One Million) I just read it again and liked it a lot. Comics were definitely happier, breezier and more confident in their own strengths before Hollywood and the Internet turned the business of writing superhero stories into the production of low budget storyboards or, worse, into conformist, fruitless attempts to impress or entertain a small group of people who appear to hate comics and their creators."

"Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls."

"I got so enmeshed in (The Invisibles) that I was producing holographic voodoo effects and found that I could make stuff happen just by writing about it. At the conclusion of volume one, I put the King Mob character in a situation where he was being tortured and he gets told that his face is being eaten away by bacteria and within a few months my own face was being eaten away by infection. I still have the scar. Its a pretty cool scar too but at the time it was really distressing. Then I had the character dying and within a few months, there I was dying in the hospital of blood poisoning and staph aureus infection. As I lay dying, I wrote my character out of trouble and somehow survived. I used the text as medicine to get myself out of trouble. Writing became a way of keeping myself alive. As soon as I was out of hospital I made sure my character had a good time and got a laid a lot and within months I was having the time of my life. (2005)"

"I use media exposure as a means of playing with multiple personalities. Each interview is a different me and theyre all untrustworthy (2000)"

"Everything is literally entangled, it can all be communicated with and affected at a distance because there is no distance, only a simulation of apparent separation which our limited consciousness feeds us second by second at 11 bits. The telepathy which brings people together is no more or less supernatural or unlikely than the telepathy which brings two of your fingers together when you think about it. Patience, participation and constant close observation of whats going on, on the inside and on the outside will soon make you a fine sorcerer, if thats what you want to be. (2004) Popimage interview"

"Real life?" Whats that? (2003)"

"Id say to myself or whoever I was with, Itll look good in the biography. and then Id go ahead and do whatever daft thing it was - like taking acid on the sacred mesa or doing the bungee-jump, getting the haircut, dancing with the stranger, talking to the crowd - whatever I was scared of mostly, or fancied doing, or never dared before, Id try it on the basis that it would make for a more interesting read one day. (2004)"

"When Nietzsche said God is dead, he forgot to mention that Satan died in the same horrific accident."

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