Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

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

As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."

Writing a screenplay, I'm like, "All I'm responsible for is that final script, and I take great effort and pride in that." But once I give it to someone to make, I can disassociate with it entirely and not worry that my vision isn't being represented, because I understand fully that that's not how it works.

Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s... I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.

I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.