3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.

Hell's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here.

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic.

Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.

I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to a single thing that has been published before, but it also stands on its own.