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.

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.

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.

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.

The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.

First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.

For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.