All I know is that you won't come back until they're all dead. 'Eternity.' Every last one of them. Every man. Every woman. Every child. Global massacre. I dream about that day. A planet of corpses

I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I.

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

X-Men is not a story about superheroes, but a story about the ongoing revolutionary struggle between good/new and bad/old. The X-Men are every rebel teenager wanting to change the world and make it better. Humanity is every adult, clinging to the past, trying to destroy the future even as he places all his hopes there.

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it.

The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.

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