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.

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.

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.

The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in superhero comics these days.

In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.

Death is the destiny of every man.

He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.

Movies are great, TV is great.

I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.

There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!

The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror