I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

I'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.

I never feel there's anything I can't do.

I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie. I say this as someone who would rather read comics than watch movies, listen to music, anything. But it's not an operatic medium. I hear other people talk about being moved to tears by comics. I can't imagine that.

One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, "Let's put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones."

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.