Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? – The Joker.
Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine.
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.
Gayness is built into Batman. I’m not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There’s just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he’s intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay.
I have to confess I’m not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.
I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.
These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.
I think the only way you can get something out is to invest some real emotion into it, which means you’re already writing about what’s going to happen to you, whether you know it or not. That’s why I’m always surprised when people talk about writer’s block. Because to me, it can’t be stopped.
Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who’s dreaming who?
There’s a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.
It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I’m very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day.
Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.
Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.
My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.