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.

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.

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.

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

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.

There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness.

(On his addiction to opiods): I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld.

I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created 'progress, ' computers are problematic, giving and taking away.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

Redeemed how I love to proclaim it. Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Redeemed thru His infinite mercy His child and forever I am.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

I came to acting in a very circuitous way.