Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples….

It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. ….

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining..

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing socie….

There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the ….

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writin….

What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to unc….

I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to approach any kind of storyte….

I think I'm a bit like a kind of shark, that if I stop swimming, I won't be able to breathe, something like that..

War is a perversion of sex..

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power..

Life isn't divided into genres.

There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence..

Ideas are bulletproof..

If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice..

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable i….

There's always been this feedback between comics and films. But I think that if you take that analogy too far, if you only see comic books in terms o….

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money..

There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some….

I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor..

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you ….