I'm happiest when I'm working. If I'm not working, I feel like I'm wasting my time.

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.

For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

Is there any other way to be? I mean, this is it. This is my body, my soul; I gotta live with it. I'd better get comfortable. I plan on taking it for a long ride.

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course.

the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.

Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .