It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

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?

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

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