I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream.

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.

On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.