I seem to like playing with form, and the superhero genre has an awful lot of formula to it. It has a lot of formula to it that I don't think it should be limited to.

I think the purpose of deconstruction is to take something apart and see how it works. If you're not going to put it back together again and watch it go, what's the point?

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what theyre like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

The Hulk is rage personified, just, "I don't like something. Break it." And that's a great concept for a seven- or eight-year-old.

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldnt like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.

I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.

I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that

We should be willing to spend the money in return for the innovation.

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.