Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

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.

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.

There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it to deeply. We build a shell around it like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function, day in, day out, immune to others' pain and loss. If it were to touch us it would cripple us or make saints of us; but, for the most part, it does not touch us. We cannot allow it to.