Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.

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.

Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you.

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

I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.

The first light had cast the first shadow.

I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols.