Fear hadn’t come to him yet. Pain hadn’t come where pain would come. There was only the feeling of having done something perfect at last—the taste of a drink from a cold, pure spring.

My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.

Soul bonds can't be broken. They only bend for a while . . .

The limit in life is the only limit you set.

...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...

With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.

Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave

The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.