Michael Moorcock

"He laughed. Clearly the idea of the governor intervening on behalf of an ordinary member of the public amused him."

"I think the human race has rather foolishly cancelled many of its options."

"Hard labour is a wonderful cure for neurosis!"

"I appreciated his attempt at a neutral tone, given his evident distaste for matter psychic and mystical. We shared, I think, a similar outlook."

"The Reens, the flying saucer people, were used by the hippies as an explanation for everything they couldnt understand. In rejecting Science, they had substituted only a banal myth."

"When confused, men turn to war and women to magic."

"He turned his eyes back to the river which seemed almost to obsess him. “Look at the Nile. An open sewer running through a desert. What has Egypt done to deserve rescue? She gave the world the ancestors who first offered Nature a serious challenge. Should we be grateful for that? From Lake Nasser to Alexandria the river remains undrinkable and frequently unusable. She once replenished the Earth. Now, work with their fertilisers and sprays, she helps poison it.”"

"Do you know what damnation can be, Sir? It can be a state of permanent caution, making one chronically unable to risk anything, even a risk which might save one from extinction."

"True madness, like true evil, I had been informed once, was always characterised by its banality."

"Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They’ve become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can’t survive without it."

"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."

"It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity."