Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.

I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

In film, a lot of the time you're not as engaged, it is all being given to you, and you're accepting it as it comes in, but in comics, as a reader, you are going to have to work, your imagination needs to do an awful lot.

You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business.

You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.

When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.