One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic work that could conceivably be described as a novel. My main objection to the term is that usually it means a collection of six issues of Spider-Man, or something that does not have the structure or any of the qualities of a novel, but is perhaps roughly the same size.

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

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

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.