Quotes by : Michael Moorcock

You Mabden seem to think that happiness must be bought with misery... It is not easy for Vadhagh to understand....

Why should their pain produce such marvelous beauty? he wonders. Or is all beauty created through pain?....

Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden terms.....

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united....

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done...

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

When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those....

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were....

Therefore it seemed a dreadful injustice that these wise races should perish at the hands of creatures....