You can't start the next chapter of your life

One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback.

What you believe and focus on becomes your reality.

For every problem, there exists a solution...and at the very least...an opportunity.

Today's gratitude buys tomorrows happiness.

Solving problems is at the foundation of our survival.

When I approached Volume 1 of "Lucid," I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.

I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.

I really want to do a True Blood-Six Feet Under comic book crossover.

I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.

Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.

I was thinking... that this isn't casual for me.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

‎You only lose that which you cling to.

I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't otherwise see.

So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.

Rub a half potato on your wart and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close your eyes and whirl three times and throw. Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall.