You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.
Alan MoorePerhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.
Alan MooreWay back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces.
Alan MooreBlake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely.
Alan Moore