War is a perversion of sex.

If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn't cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When you've got these kinds of sums involved in creating another two hours of entertainment for Western teenagers, I feel it crosses the line from being merely distasteful to being wrong.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.