I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...

Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.

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

In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.

I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.