The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.

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.

This is the end of our sentence

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

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.