I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

I write the book for one person — for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she'll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It's a really weird job but I enjoy it.

I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.

After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.

We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.