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“Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker”
― Grant Morrison, quote from Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.”
― Grant Morrison, quote from Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.”
― Grant Morrison, quote from Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimes…I question the rationality of my actions. And I’m afraid that when I walk through those asylum gates... when I walk into Arkham and the doors close behind me... it’ll be just like coming home.”
― Grant Morrison, quote from Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd.”
― Grant Morrison, quote from Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.”
― Grant Morrison, quote from Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?”
― Grant Morrison, quote from Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.”
― Grant Morrison, quote from Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you.”
― Grant Morrison, quote from Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“Einstein was wrong! I"M the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!”
― Grant Morrison, quote from Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!”
― Grant Morrison, quote from Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It's only a doll house after all. Anyway, I don't mind. I like dolls.
Particularly the live ones.”
― Grant Morrison, quote from Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity”
― Grant Morrison, quote from Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something.”
― Grant Morrison, quote from Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“Routine is important, i think.a good routine diverts the mind from morbid imaginings.”
― Grant Morrison, quote from Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.”
― Grant Morrison, quote from Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
Grant Morrison
Born place: in Glasgow, Scotland, The United Kingdom
Born date January 31, 1960
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