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“The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.”

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Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The…

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“Look at it, Dane. Look at the city and the world in its proud array, like a cask of jewels laid open for you. It'll offer you everything you ever wanted but it's just pictures on billboards; dream cars, dream women, dream houses. Time to wake up now and say goodbye. Remember, Dane: there's other worlds out there. It's only…

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Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something.

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Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and…

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The more I think about it, the more I realize that schools are just factories for turning out robots, that's all. They get you when your small and vulnerable and they take all the human parts away, bit by bit, until you're just a wind-up toy. Turn the key and set it running. And the toy goes to university, gets…

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I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always get my…

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Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

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I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read.

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Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

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“If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it’s only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean. Because the numinous is everywhere, we need to be reminded of it. We live among wonders. Superhuman cyborgs, we plug into cell phones connecting us to one another and to…

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Only nothing is impossible.

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Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.

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