Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument…and the occasional bar fight.
The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.
We walk in dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We live for the One. We die for the One. — the Ranger oath
Accidents happen. That’s what everyone says. But in a quantum universe there are no such things as accidents, only possibilities and probabilities folded into existence by perception.
It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists – it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.
No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark where no one will ever know or see.
Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice…it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous…
I’ve made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
There’s a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really want to work with guys I really respect and enjoy.
We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.
Every time I got ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ or ‘Fantastic Four’ or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.
There’s a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
I’ve written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.