I'd like to own Intel... I'd like to own Microsoft... I'd love to have Warner Bros in my hip pocket.

I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool in that it helps literacy. The more you read, the better you get at it. It almost doesn't matter what you read, the important thing is for young people to become readers.

Fans are almost always nice. I really find that they rarely come on too strong.

I know the world expects me to have superpowers, and it'll be quite a disappointment. But I just play myself.

I think it's just the challenge. It's not that all my life I've wanted to do characters [in Marvel] , because I never particularly thought about it, but the challenge of saying, "How could they be done differently that may be more absorbing or more effective?"

Face front, true believers!

I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.