He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.

In comics, collaboration saves your life. How well you can work with an artist, a colorist, a letterer, is how good your comic is.

I love the auditioning process. I love working with the technical guys. I absolutely love the editing room. That was completely fascinating to me, working with an editor in crafting the thing into something you had in your head.

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.