The Dancers at the End of Time Quotes

“Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?”
― Michael Moorcock, The Dancers at the End of Time

“Time is a dream - or a nightmare - from which there is never any waking. We who travel in Time are dreamers who occasionally share a common experience.”
― Michael Moorcock, The Dancers at the End of Time

“We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are.”
― Michael Moorcock, The Dancers at the End of Time

“Because the Eternal Champion sequence contains comedies does not mean that I am satirising those stories which are tragic and romantic. We're diverse creatures and for me the Eternal Champion must reflect and embrace that diversity. Chaos Theory, perhaps the most important intellectual advance in many years, suggests that in diversity we flourish and the fewer choices we have the poorer are our chances of survival.”
― Michael Moorcock, The Dancers at the End of Time

“Once, it was said, the whole city had been sentient, the most intelligent being in the universe, but now it was senile and even its memories were fragmented.”
― Michael Moorcock, The Dancers at the End of Time