"Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb." And I don't think that's a useful definition. That's more a dismissal.

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.

A broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said.

For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.

I might live miles away from you, but I do understand you issues.

O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!

I tried to remember how to exhale. I had to look away before it came back to me.

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.