The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

A man without hope is a man without fear.

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.

'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

take words and make them useful, ' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

Somewhere there is a drummer calling to you too, and playing your special beat.

In the end it will not matter how we have told our story, but only how God sees it.

Some people hate the smell of hospitals. I hate the smell of jails and prisons, all the same: stale cigarette smoke, Pine-Sol, urine, sweat, and dust.

UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures

As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.