'Animal Man' and 'Swamp Thing' have so many commonalities in tone and mood.

My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters.

Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.

She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?

When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don't kick him on the ground.

There are bits and pieces of me probably in every one of my 35 or so books.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

If money's the god people worship, I'd rather go worship the devil instead.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

Privately, I'm thrilled with what I do, but publicly, I hold it in disdain.

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.

There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.

Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.

Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever.

Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take.

The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

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