Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

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

One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.

Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.

He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted.

Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.