Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

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

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.

I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I'm always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be "elevated" into another medium. Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.