The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.

If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.

Organizations who win, think deeply, choose wisely, and act decisively.

All my kids love superheroes, but my middle daughter in particular is obsessed with Wonder Woman and Batgirl.

I am as resilient as the steel that was once made here, and I am a fighter, in every sense of the word. We all are.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

...my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow...

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.

I don't need to be on top to know I'm worth it

I just don't really want to settle and I don't think I should have to.

I don't have a lot of friends; most of the friends I have, I've had since high school.

Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted.

Planning is bringing the future into the present.