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From my very first day, I was pursued by men.
All of them tried to hurt me, but only one managed to break my heart.

How? How did you know ... ?
What, that my wife can do anything? Isn't it obvious?

But you have gift!"
"Gift? I was electrocuted and disfigured, and now I think my fucking television is talking to me. That's called schizophrenia.

Have you ever been shot by one? Because I have and it hurt like the day my dog died ...

So what? He's good to you and Hazel now, isn't he? Who cares if he's got history with some other broad?

Well, I've always wanted to call my son Barr."
"Like a tavern? Like a soap?"
"My father's name is Barr."
"Oh. And I love it!

Some general advice about writing:
WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS.

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

Anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

Forgive me if I don't take relationship advice from a dead teenager missing her vagina.

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books.

Once you get past the scales and the blindfold, Justice is a woman with a sword.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

There's an old saying, Zill. Freedom can't be given, only earned.

Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree?

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.

Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.

Now be a dear and fuck the fuck off.

Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'

Dying is one of the few experiences we'll eventually all enjoy firsthand, and like most shit that's commonplace, it's boring to dwell on.

There are two kinds of people left in the world, consumers and destroyers. We used to have creators, but they all ran away.

Younger writers are always looking for "blurbs," one of the few words that sounds exactly as awful as the crime it's describing.

After years of pitched battles, my father was ready for a significantly less stressful career. Unfortunately, he decided to try raising a girl.

If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born.

With little power comes little responsibility.

For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.

Relax, Klara, you can finish your one-woman book club as soon as somebody gets home.

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.

Because I'm not a bad guy, Nico. Gert couldn't have loved me if I was. I realize that now.

Futur is a threat, not a promise

what good is freedom if we can't do what we want?

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

How's a skeleton crew supposed to save Chase from the giants who annihilated our parents?"
"I believe your people call it "girl power.

A lot of people who came into my family's life looking like heroes ended up acting more like villains.

Well, robots are, of course, the monkey's natural enemy.

Anyone with an autobiography is almost definitely an evil piece of shit.

Alana, we are soldiers, not fucking damsels in distress.

I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama.

I love doing research. I'm a film-school geek.

Here's the thing, everybody loves babies ... but only in very, VERY small doses.

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.

People just want good stories.

It was a time of war.
Isn't it always.

Well, you know what they say, the reader is the final contributor. Cheers for doing the heavy lifting.

There's always money in conflict."
"Says the diehard peacenik?"
"Oh, I abhor real violence, but fake violence is fucking brilliant.

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

My parents told me to be careful of you. That's how I knew you were the onyly one of us we could trust with our lives.

In the beginning, love is mostly about lying to each other. It's like that in the end, too.

If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit ... the least you can so is try to forgive them.

I don't think I have discipline when it comes to anything.

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.

All you have to do is make a fist. The bullet does the hitting for you.

Thirty chapters of good deeds never tells you a whole man's story.

The more you care about someone, the more likely it is that your eventual parting of ways will be as sudden as it is baffling.

I just make crap up more than anything else.

We're all aliens to someone. Even among our own people, most of us still feel like complete foreigners from time to time.

Life is stupidly short. Why not enjoy the last act?

Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.

Some dreams really do come true. That said, most dreams are weird as shit.

Admit it, you're probably a very different person at work than you are at home.
Everyone needs to be someone else sometimes.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

Every kid gets "programmed" by their 'rents, Chase. That doesn't mean they have to do as they're told.

Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist,

Bro, all you've got is a book. How do you plan to fight our parents? With literacy?

Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

Never worry what other people think of you, because no one ever thinks of you.

No, only villains try to change the whole world. The rest of us take it one person at a time.

Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.

Just go out there and get your heart broken in, so it'll be ready when you really need it.

Natalya: It was our favorite sister of NASA who guilt me into putting my tits on line to rescuing you helpless ornaments.

Most of us think we can hide our weaknesses from the world, and sometimes, we're right. But only if we're very very strong.

The only way the dead live on is through the people they leave behind.

Faith and science can be friends, but they make for a disastrous marriage.

You're right that not everything we do has to have some kind of social agenda, but that doesn't mean it can only be anesthetizing crap.

Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?"
Nico: "Try not to die.

It's time to climb off our high horses and step into the shit.

Most of my childhood was spent clinging to the feathers of a dulled arrow blindly fired across a starless night.

Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

Each of us has been falling apart since day one, Chase. We just have to find a way to fall apart together.

Cool. So glad I got to do all this in a towel.

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures ... but let's try to have some fun along the way.

Over the years, we met every kind of person imaginable. But no one makes worse first impressions than writers.

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

You know, for a pacifist, you sure beg to get stabbed a lot

It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.

I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned.

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

Cookie monster speaks better English than you.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

There's no graduating from this kind of education, couples just keep growing and changing until they either break up or die.

When you're dead set on doing the right thing, sometimes it's hard to recognize that you're doing it in the wrong way.

Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes don't kill vampires, they just give us heartburn.