In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living.

I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members.

I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time.

I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy.

If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead.

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.

We're always exploring new ideas in the writers room, and those kinds of ideas snowball from season to season and drive the show in a different direction.

Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.

This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you’ve seen that before, you haven’t. And the Rick Grimes that comes out of this is really going to shock people.

June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.

The world is terrible, " said Mark tonelessly. "And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned.

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.

A green jobs bill would include both job creation and job training.