"Comic book" has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call Die Hard "a comic-book movie," when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

I'll make it. I won't die. I've got too much I have to do to let myself die.

I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair.

You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you.

The American conscience died with the Kennedys.

I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.