The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

The only real reason that I'd have for working for Hollywood is the fantastic amounts of money involved, and that isn't enough of an incentive to really give up the degree of control that I have over my work at the moment with comics. I suppose that's probably why I don't have any designs on being a screenwriter.

What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?