The Hulk is rage personified, just, "I don't like something. Break it." And that's a great concept for a seven- or eight-year-old.

The Hulk is rage personified, just, "I don't like something. Break it." And that's a great concept for a seven- or eight-year-old.

The metaphors exist for the stories.

What really matters is not how well a character fits a definition, but how strongly he or she resonates. Characters with strong, resonant ideas at their core will have more of an impact on the cultural consciousness than a character who's just an empty collection of attributes.

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

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