And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something.

I think any writer coming on to Batman should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

Burnout is grist to the mill. 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.

Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.

He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.

And when it's all done, when there's no one left you'll come back for me. And tell me who I am and why I have to do what I do. And explain 'Eternity.' You'll come back