If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do, but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.

People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, 'Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are?'

In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero’s path somehow conveys what’s going on inside your hero’s head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he’s thinking.

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer’s perspective.

I’m kind of a comic book geek, but I’m not really a super hero comic book geek.

I’ve never counted my chickens before they’ve hatched.

I’m mostly coming at the superhero legends as an outsider, I know them and I studied them but I didn’t really grow up with them, but I think it allows me to sort of analyze them in a way that’s kind of interesting.

Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we’re dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.

I’ve had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

The ability to get inside your character’s head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really define the character’s voice and two, it’s a way easier way to convey what the character’s thinking by actually laying out what he’s thinking.