I always figure I'm not unique, and something that would please me hopefully would please a lot of other people that have the same tastes that I do.

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

That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when I was growing up, my mother didn't care. As long as I was reading, she didn't care if my room was filled with comics. I could have saved everything. I was just too stupid to do it.

Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.

Some people are able to not only entertain the public in any way that they can but also in some way to throw in some sort of inspirational message with the entertainment. I have always tried to do that with whatever I wrote. And I'm sure that a lot of other writers do, too.

I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.

I never tried to write for other people. I liked people who had problems I might have, because we all have insecurities, regrets. I like heroes who were not 100-percent perfect, who things to take care of.