I don't like to think of my readership as "fans," a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words. I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience.

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?