One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

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.

Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another.

It's so horrible to realize you're just the same as everyone else, isn't it?

And when it's all done, when there's no one left you'll come back for me. And tell me who I am and why I have to do what I do. And explain 'Eternity.' You'll come back