More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.

I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do.