The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

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

A gun is a liar's weapon

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.