I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols.

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

Are you taking us to hell?" I ask, and Denise answers with an ominous, "More or less.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

To be at ease is better than to be at business.

Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?

As the 'Batman' TV series was returning to ABC for its second season in 1967, the TV bosses decided to take Catwoman into another direction... lucky for me.

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

I'm a perimeter player. I'm more like a Ray Allen.

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.