An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

A man without hope is a man without fear.

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.

'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Vested in fear, frightened of failure, but beyond that I choose to surrender to my fated success.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

Avoid foods you see advertised on television.

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.

No one seems to care. Certainly, no one in the million dollar fund-raising cancer clinics are excited over the almost miraculous ...record of...Krebiozen.

I'm really encouraged by Pope Francis, because I think his attitude is totally laudable.

My idea to bridge the world together with music starting in Asia and going to the West is something that is new, untapped and leading to the future of bringing the worlds together.

England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there.