You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

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."

These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.

I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.

I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.

I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point.

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.