I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

Superheroes are also about immigrants. Superman, the prototype of all superheroes, is a prototypical immigrant. His homeland was in crisis, so his parents sent him to America in search of a better life. He has two names, one American, Clark Kent, and the other foreign, Kal-El. He wears two sets of clothes and lives in between two cultures. He loves his new country, but a part of him still longs for his old one.

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.

One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white.

I liked interacting with students. I liked having coworkers. For a long time, I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.