I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men... Poor dominoes. Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers down it goes.

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

I think I'm a bit like a kind of shark, that if I stop swimming, I won't be able to breathe, something like that.

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.