The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off.

It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when, you know, I just want to hide or scream or bleed or something, and...all that...

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.