You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.

Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

What we think of as Halloween is really the product of media barons, city mayors, and candy-makers. You know, before the 1920s, Halloween was really a terrible, terrible night.

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.