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

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

When you combine the great stories from the comics with the action and visual excitement of the movies, it doesn't get any better!

What the hell could you do? I've never been arrested, I haven't taken drugs, I've had the same wife for 54 years; where's anything of interest to people?

I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it is important to people. Without it, lives can be dull.

Ideally, anything one writes should have a social conscience: if you can write a story that thrills, and with a good message, that's the perfect type of a story.

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