It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself..

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses..

I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my fri….

Life is mostly just learning how to lose..

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again..

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth..

Fans of my books have just been supremely nice..

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

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same..

Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that..

They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be ….

It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. I'm 40 now, ….

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it..

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life..

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

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few..

I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women..

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..

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

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

I think a lot of creators are attracted to those toys they got to play with when they were young, and everyone wants to write a Superman story or a B….