We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very natural thing that people are captivated with the illustrations in a story.

We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.

When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.

I guess one person can make a difference.

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.

Life is never completely without its challenges.

No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.

Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction.

Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

I'm proud of most of the stuff I've put out and I hope my kids will look at it long after I'm gone and go, "hey, Daddy was cool once!"

I'm not a big fan of those who are egotistical and so outspoken.

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

I'm not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

There's something unsettling about being continually sold something.