No, I would not say that assault with a baseball bat constitutes "justice being done.

With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

You work for the devil, you better be ready to die for him.

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

What happens when your world ends? Your lover steals your heart...and your father casts you out...and you fall.

Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.

Every artist was first an amateur.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies and sparkle in its brightness.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

Why should you care if you have nothing to hide?

I ask for help. I tell Life what I want, and then I allow it to happen.

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.