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

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.

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

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.

Making an effort can be equated to not doing anything at all. You don't make an effort to walk, you just walk. It's the same with winning. You don't make an effort to win, you just do it.

I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.

Faith is unflinching trust in something divine.

Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.