I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

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.

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.

Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

Pretty much all comic-book people, like all Hollywood people, for the most part, are pretty liberal. I think especially UK writers. Alan Moore is probably the most radical guy you'll ever meet. I grew up loving those guys, so my heroes, as a kid, were radical cartoonists, essentially. I couldn't help but - I grew up in a left-wing household. But I do think it's fun, writing right-wing characters. I've found it interesting, just as a writer, to get inside their heads and make them likeable.