I've always been positive about superheroes.

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.

I want to be like a Supernova

Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.

It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.

I'd like to die with my boots on.

You want to poof it or ride back with me?

I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.

A lot of adults are very into Halloween.

In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.