I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.

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.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.

The divine light which you carry within your soul is inherited from God because you are His daughter. Part of the light which makes you so magnificent is the blessing of womanhood.

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.

The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

Champions are brilliant at the basics.

Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!