I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new title I mutter to myself: ugh! I wish I would've thought of that!

The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.

Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.

I have a very strong color theory, for instance, where in 'Powers,' green means powerless, and red means power.The story was all there, but I was desperate to make sure that extra level was the case.

You're as good as the people you're with.

One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.

I don't take it for granted, because I saw the fruits of Stan's [Lee] 50-year labor, and I didn't have to wait 50 years myself.

If you're miserable and someone flies by looking like they have everything in the whole world and it's never going to be you, that's tough to deal with.

I looked at Tank Girl, which is the coolest comic, ever. The movie didn't make the comic book any less cool. The comic is still the comic.

The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

No, ” I said. “I can’t remember doing this.”“Oh, ” Rena made and gestured dramatically. “You don’t remember it. And that automatically means you didn’t do it?

Successful minds work like a gimlet - to a single point.

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

I don't think I've had a rocky love life. I'm just trying to figure out what I want.

Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.

I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.

The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.

The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over.

I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.