The American conscience died with the Kennedys.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

A man without hope is a man without fear.

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.

'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Nothing is wrong with her that is dangerous or harmful. She just feels deeper than others

Hard long roads create tough men

When asked to borrow money: "I'll see what my lawyer says. . . . And if he says yes I'll get another lawyer."

Crying babies are like good intentions: Both should be carried out immediately!

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

We're going to rush the hijackers.

Visit your soul; don't visit your past.

When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.