Michael Moorcock Quotes

Life is never free of contradictions.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

The best war is when you can hate both sides.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions are what make characters interesting, and I've been lucky to be presented with characters who have a lot of contradictions.

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist. Perhaps the most vexing aspect about it is that neither group is wrong: they are both telling the truth.

In general, I like contradictions and complex situations.

The farther you go, the less you know.

In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one.

The more you play it the less you know about it.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

The more I know, the less I understand

Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

The unknowable creates the greatest controversies.

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

I find the more you analyze, the less you really know.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

We're going to move left and right at the same time.

I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.

The world is full of contradiction.

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.

What went wrong? Nothing and everything.