I always thought it was more interesting to think about Reed Richards. As you know, he had the ability to stretch, and sexually, that would seem to be a great asset in many areas.

I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person.

It's just, it's fun to stay in the game.

People are pissed off about the seemingly impossible goal of social mobility. their proposed solution is to take the wheels off the cart.

No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.

Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.