Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity.

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.

It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day.

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

It’s mostly just you have to convince yourself that there’s nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

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