Michael Moorcock Thinking Quotations

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it does remove the mythic power of the feminine and masculine principles. So I prefer it in its original form, even if you have to wade through Mallory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur' - people smashing people for pages and pages! It still has the resonances of myth about it, which makes it work for me. I don't want to know if Mordred led an unhappy childhood or not.

It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.

If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?