Reality and unreality have no clear distinction in our present circumstances.

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

Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something.

American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But Superman is a metaphor. For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale. If Superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space. When Superman's relatives visit, they come from the 31st century and bring some hellish monster conqueror from the future. But it's still a story about your relatives visiting.

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

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.

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.