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.

Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!

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

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!