I couldn't say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]... How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC's top superheroes?

We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.

When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.

I guess one person can make a difference.

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.

Life is never completely without its challenges.

No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.

Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction.

Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy

Clarity in my cup. Transparency of my soul. Lucidity of myself. Elixir of the ages. Tea makes us all sages.

When I loved myself enough, I would sometimes wake in the night to music playing within me.

Can you fall for someone because you're lazy?

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

You'll stay with me?' Until the very end,' said James.

When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .

He who writes the Resolved Clause, wins the debate.