Grant Morrison Quotes

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars.

I think the power of the mind is amazing, and we've barely scratched the surface of what it can do.

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

It's amazing how much the human mind and body can do and achieve.

Women Are Not Roses Women have no beginning only continual flows. Though rivers flow women are not rivers. Women are not roses they are not oceans or stars. i would like to tell her this but i think she already knows.

The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.

Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are.

I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.

Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space.

Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass.

Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don't think that we will become the machines of the machines.

[H]uman beings...make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts...the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves.

I love the human mind.

I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there.

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.

I think, as a writer, I'm in my own head.