I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a bringer of Promethean fire, some unique transmission that comes out of nowhere. I prefer the opposite view - that writers come from somewhere. They read things, and they think about them, and they incorporate other people's thoughts.

I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

I met someone who lives in an elevator.

When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.