I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

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.

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 knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

...won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

There will be people who hate everything you do. And some people will really love it. But that's not really different from the people who really hate it.

I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as good as Dennis Day.

No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.