I'm a very smug show-off at heart. I'm altogether too pleased with myself. The big boost for me is to be able to turn out something that I think is pretty marvelous, like 'Lost Girls.' I'm not in it for money, I'm just in it for the glory.

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.