I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it’s taken with a flash, I look like I am possessed by the blazing forces of darkness, at least in the eye department.
Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.
I have a really high tolerance level for twits. I really do.
I’m never quite sure if I’m me when I’m dressed up.
I do not threaten, I merely advise caution.
Life and death are different sides of the same coin.
In order for stories to work – for kids and for adults – they should scare. And you should triumph. There’s no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn’t scary.
Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.
I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book store every month and spend my $2. That was my starting point. I wanted to write a comic that I would read. And that’s still my agenda.
Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you’re a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.
And there never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
I lost some time once. It’s always in the last place you look for it.
Continuity isn’t actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don’t use it where you don’t need to.
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
I’m one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I’m very good at doing that, but I don’t like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.
Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it’s a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don’t to make it all bearable.
Also, I’ve already won all the awards.
The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.