What I do with everything is take things out of real life. You encounter all sorts of stories. It's a lot of your friends and family, sometimes there's quite sad episodes in their life and everything. So just little things I've picked up along the years always find a way into all of my stories.

When you don't have time to do your job, that's a good indication you're playing the wrong game.

It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.

If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.

First, believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.

She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.

Leaders don't ever "arrive." If we ever think we're done, we are done!