When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled.

Start telling the stories that only you can tell.

I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book store every month and spend my $2. That was my starting point. I wanted to write a comic that I would read. And that's still my agenda.