We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.
What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?
Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?
I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.
If you're 14 and you're skinny, you can't be on the football team, basically. It's just not even really possible. But skating is something that you can do that gets that athletic urge satisfied, but you get to do it on your own terms. You can be as ballsy as you want to be. It was perfect for me.
I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.