One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit.

One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye, tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.

Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured.

Things are as bad as you fear they are. People are as bad as you think they are. The Universe does not care.

Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.

I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some pages. It's hard work. And it requires you learn certain skills.

He has one of those heads people think about cutting off." “Yes. He does.

There is very little sense that anybody really knows what works or why. But that's not a shock. And I don't think market research would solve that.

The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.

As long as there's breath in the flesh, there'll always be desire for more. Being content is a gift, other millionaires and billionaires actually die empty and less fulfilled.

Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.

The light shines in our hearts and our lives.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.

Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.

Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

If you were a kid and you wanted to come out and make a statement now, you'd have to really dig deep to find something that no one has exposed already.