Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.

My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.

I've been fortunate enough to travel to comic conventions in Portugal, France, Canada, and it's an honor to get to meet people from all over the world.

Darkness well ahead is better than darkness close by, because you can find a way to avoid the former! Search the horizons to see the storms ahead.

Some believe they can,    Some believe that they cannot.      Both are clearly right

Time travel would give humanity the ability to alter the past and prune the tree of all possible futures of those branches that had been infected by evil

We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside.

And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.

You see, the problem in life isn't in receiving answers. The problem is in identifying your current questions. Once you get the questions right, the answers always come.

If you walk through life in a fighting pose with your fists balled up and ready to strike, someone, someday, somewhere, is going to want to test your mettle.

Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us.

If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.

I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.