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

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

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.

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message boards, but there are so few of them, as a percentage of the buying audience, that I can't allow their opinions to dictate story direction.