I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

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.

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

I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.

Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay.

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.