"I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination."

"First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract."

"On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops."

"Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around."

"It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years."

"My main point is to entertain in a way that is unique and different from what anybody else id doing; to apply my voice in a way that nobody else in the industry is applying theirs."

"The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice."

"If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy."

"It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power."

"In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army."

"Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes."

"Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation."

"If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill."

"The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys."

"Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way."

"The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day."

"I've done work for hire. I've worked for DC and Dark Horse."

"If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick."

"Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world."

"If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course."

"The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product."

"I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your money."

"The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top."

"The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society."

"That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere."

"If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay."

"But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story."