This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?
I’ve had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting.
I’m not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems with it. And on the surface you can see that the Internet could go an awful long way to educating, enlightening, informing and connecting the world.
I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.
Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious.
It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.
If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn’t be the audience, they would be the artist.
I’ve never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I’ve never wanted to, and there’s absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.
I’ve never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.
I’m very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.
I’m remote from most technology to the point that I’m kind of Amish.
I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.
I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.
I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.
I love films that are made with almost no budget.
Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.
The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.
There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.