The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.

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

I always think it's a mistake when you actually have to set books aside and actually sit down and research something. I always think they've got to come from within.

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

I think most people know the concept of difficult family situations. So I try to just ground a very big concept in something we can all relate to on some level.

I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.

When I was a kid growing up in the '80s, the BBC showed those old Buster Crabbe serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. So instead of ponderous sci-fi or depressing sci-fi or dystopian sci-fi and all the things we're kind of used to, where it's always raining and it's always dark, I thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to do something that was just fun and absolutely nonstop?" Like, I love writing action, and this thing is that. It's all action.