I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.

When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.

The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."