Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically. But if you look outside the window it's 52-percent female, and something odd is going on there. So I do think it's your responsibility as a writer, really, to create stuff that little girls can get into too. I want my daughters to have role models that are female.

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.

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

There's almost a universe as big as the Marvel Universe with X-Men. I mean, Deadpool is something I think everybody was taken surprise by, except for the people who read the comic book.