Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

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.

Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.

Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.

When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.

The wages of Gin is Debt.

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

What is death all about? What is life all about?

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

Comedy is not supposed to be funny. Its supposed to tell the truth and then that's funny.

Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.' It was the perfect motto for Morganville.

I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.