The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.-The Watcher in The Avengers #14

I don't wake up in the morning and say, wow I've got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let's see.

The cliché I tried to avoid was I hated "teenage sidekicks." I always figured if I were a superhero, there's no way on God's earth that I'm gonna pal around with some teenager. So my publisher insisted I have a teenager in the series, because they always felt teenagers won't read the books unless there's a teenager in the story; which is nonsense.

I work with people and we come up with ideas for movies, television and things like that. It's fun and I love doing it.

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.

The more you read, the better you're going to become as a storyteller.

I never really am concerned about the political landscape of the day when I'm writing because no matter what it is, it will change. By the time my stories come out, it will have changed. So I never think much about that.