It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

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.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together.

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.