I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.

Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.

I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.