Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations.

People like stories that are bigger than life, about characters with unusual powers. And when you get all the characters in the zodiac, it's so colorful, and it's so rich in different attitudes that the characters have.

I see myself in everything I write. All the good guys are me.

I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated cartoon.

In the beginning Marvel created the Bullpen and the Style. And the Bullpen was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the Artists. And the Spirit of Marvel said, Let there be The Fantasic Four. And there was The Fantasic Four. And Marvel saw The Fantasic Four. And it was good.

Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction.

I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.