I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

I dont want to write, Id rather draw.

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.

Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I'm also a hopeless romantic inside.

I'm a monster, I'm a maven, I know this world is changin'. Never gave in, never gave up, I'm the only thing I'm afraid of.

You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught.

Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.

The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.

I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.