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Jonathan Ross interviews Alan Moore:

I don't think that the thing that calls itself Alan Moore will survive death, I think it would be kind of horrible if it did, because this is the personality that works for here, this is the personality that I've developed to get by in this place, and the idea of that hanging on forever...

Hard to choose just one excerpt from all the brilliant things he says. Check it out.

Updated 4/13: I gave in to the urge to excerpt more.

The way that school seemed to me was that there was an overt curriculum — reading, writing and arithmetic — and a covert curriculum, which was more or less punctuality, obedience and the acceptence of monotony... In a lot of cases it seemed that school was like aversion therapy. It wasn't there to teach you knowledge, it was there to put you off learning. You'd associate learning or reading with work and you'd associate work with drudgery. This is why most people are happy to just sit down in front of the televsion at night. "I'm not actually doing any work, therefore I must be having a perfect time."

(Another one via Linkmachinego)