Mark Waid

“Socrates should have written comics.”

“Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.”

“When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.”

“I think of it this way: When you hear that people have downloaded your comic, appreciate that thousands are eager to hear what you have to say. The poetry club down the hall may not have the same problem. That's a good problem to have.”

“I do believe that any sort of electromagnetic energy that can be measured beyond the moment of death is, by the definition of energy, eternal. But I cop to the fact that calling it a 'soul' and presuming it sustains our consciousness in any form is, to put it kindly, a leap.”

“What I need is for comics to not cheapen out and just do what they think a bunch of bloodthirsty 15 year old fans want.”