Kieron Quotes

#1. Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a warp into the middle of a wildly imaginative mythology and I'm itching to read more.

Rick Remender

#2. The first issue of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a wonderful door to a seductive new world. Let's all go in!

Fabio Moon

#3. I'm 28 now and they say you peak at 28 - so my best years are still ahead of me.

Kieron Dyer

#4. Late night chaining of videos and basically obsessing are rare for me, and often I've never even seen the videos of my favourite songs. That said, in terms of my own personal magic, video has probably rated lower than most music fans.

Kieron Gillen

#5. Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses.

Kieron Gillen

#6. Life turns grey as the leaves fall in Autumn.

Kieron Shepherd

#7. A blundering wind scatters yellowed leaves...

David Mitchell

#8. I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted' brain-cycles.

Kieron Gillen

#9. You forget who is master and who is student. It is your duty to learn what I know. It is my duty to learn what there is to teach.

Kieron Gillen

#10. Revolution is just change with ideological roots showing like bad peroxide.

Kieron Gillen

#11. Of course, I'm only joking," he says, studying me. "The reason they're staring is because I am extraordinarily good looking.

Penelope King

#12. When broken minds embrace any hypothetical god then what you get is a proportionally broken result.

Steve Merrick

#13. Paul Scholes is literally on another planet

Kieron Dyer

#14. It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.

Greg Lynn

#15. I have rejected Juventus four times; it's a beautiful pussy that doesn't get me horny.

Antonio Cassano

#16. You can realize your dream, as long as it's got enough nightmare in it

Kieron Gillen

#17. When I speak, people know that in my gut, I'm bad. They feel better about being bad in their guts.

Kieron Gillen

#18. When a man is commonplace in discussion yet valued for what he writes that shows that his talents lie in his borrowed sources not in himself.

Michel De Montaigne

#19. Do you want to be smart or do you want to know things?

Kieron Gillen

#20. When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.

Kieron Gillen

#21. Look at Woden and his cheerily racist army of ethnic monocultured valkyrie fuck buddies.

Kieron Gillen

#22. Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half.

Kieron Gillen

#23. We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

Vance Havner

#24. The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Edmund Wilson

#25. He treated me like a son and I let him down. I must take some responsibility for him getting the sack. I regret letting him down so much.

Kieron Dyer

#26. After all, nostalgia is an emotion for people with no future.

Kieron Gillen

#27. Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator.

Kieron Gillen

#28. Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases.

Kieron Gillen

#29. The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty.

John Warner

#30. Empires are born. Empires reach their peak. Empires die. Death is never pretty. (...) Is it that the good die young, or is it simply that the old turn bad and mad?

Kieron Gillen

#31. It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.

Kieron Gillen

#32. Belief is all-important in what we do.

You believe, it burns, flickers and dies. The ashes mix with the soil and we call them memories.

Kieron Gillen

#33. A synopsis of every story we do: someone gets over their own stupid ass.

Kieron Gillen

#34. Looking through the eyes of the divine nature you see the essence within the manifestation, the creator within the creation, and it is a wonderful, wonderful world!

Peace Pilgrim

#35. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.

Kieron Gillen

#36. There is always something behind what is wrong and to change what is wrong, mind the things behind what is wrong! So many people are quick enough to see what is wrong only, and they criticize so blindly! When you see what is wrong, see why, who and what is behind what is wrong.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#37. The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.

Nik Wallenda

#38. I actually didn't see it coming. -Captain America

Kieron Gillen

#39. The only great darkness I'm good at fighting is the one inside all of us. I'd like to light a fire inside everyone that can burn forever

Kieron Gillen