When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.

If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

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.

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

If I'm creating a new superhero, it shouldn't be any different from other superheroes in terms of the qualities. Obviously the personality can be different. I think traditionally in comics women have tended to be a girlfriend or the daughter of whoever, whether it's even Batgirl as Gordon's daughter, or whatever. There is that relation of the hero, you know, like Superman's cousin, Supergirl. And that's great. It's fantastic to have a link to these amazing characters, but I kind of like the idea of things being something in their own right, which is why I've always loved Wonder Woman.