Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what theyre like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

It's fun to take a piece of formula and go someplace else with it and see what happens.

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity.

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.