THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.

Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses.

Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases.

When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.

Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half.

I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted' brain-cycles.

Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator.

It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.

I’ve never known a tranquil atheist. Don’t they always look like they just sat on a tack?

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

Pain now is better than pain deferred.

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

I knew God wanted to do much more...and he would, if we provided good soil in which he could work.

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do.