The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

Writers are the most terrible kleptomaniacs.

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

I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

The ultimate [act] that would be the taboo, to show how bad some villain is, was to have somebody being raped, you know? I don't really think it matters. It's the same as, like, a decapitation. It's just a horrible act to show that somebody's a bad guy.

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.

In the U.S., Superman or Batman or something, the law-enforcement people, are the most famous comic characters. Americans have a respect, I think, for badges and a respect for uniforms. I think that's, in some ways, quite a nice thing, but it can be dangerous, too, because it can obviously be abused.