There's a lot of dark stuff from the '80s that we don't think about.

I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!

Well, I always talk about how I used to work at an insane asylum and stuff, which is true, but to be honest, I just make crap up more than anything else.

Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.

To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who's trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

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.