I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaphors that I find in each story.

I think the purpose of deconstruction is to take something apart and see how it works. If you're not going to put it back together again and watch it go, what's the point?

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what theyre like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

The Hulk is rage personified, just, "I don't like something. Break it." And that's a great concept for a seven- or eight-year-old.

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldnt like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.

I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

You must build your tomorrow today through visions

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

To serve humankind is service of being.

I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.