If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... it's important to care about them, about who they are and what they do...I don't really care whose side they are on, and they can be monstrous on the outside or, worse, on the inside, but you still have to want to spend time with them.

Names come and names go.

I'm just going to stay here, in the darkness under the arch. I can hear you all out there, trip-trapping, trip-trapping over my bridge. Oh yes, I can hear you. But I'm not coming out.

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 can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.

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

Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.