The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic.

I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.

This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.

When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.

The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic.

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.

I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side.

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

It took them a while to catch on that Batman would be the greatest.

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

In the Golden Age of Batman, I penciled, inked, and lettered my strip by myself.

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.

The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

The north of Sweden is very socialist and poor. They feel left out and despise Stockholm in many ways because Stockholm has become new liberals and much more Americanized.

I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.

I've been to Sundance before, but I'd never seen a lot of screenings.

Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

We get angry about the small things sometimes, I feel, so that we feel like we're doing something, so that we don't have to tackle the big things. And it's fine; let people do that. But I'm not gonna now change because of that. You know? Like, the worst thing that happens to me is you don't like me. And then what?

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp and full of dreadful black insects.

I always imagined a writer was someone who lived in an attic in Paris, but my mum instilled in me a belief that I could do anything - so I ended up writing my first novel while working nights as a news reporter.

Ultimately, I've learned to pride myself on being quirky. I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I've always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you to where you want to go, no one else.

After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.

I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.

My dad grew up in Pittsburgh in the '50s, and he used to sing Four Seasons songs on the stoop. He made me listen to Cousin Brucie - the guy who broke the Four Seasons on the radio. So I knew all of their songs, but I didn't know they were all by the same group.

I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.

All of my books tend to be about things going on in labs that you wouldn't really expect.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equation.

It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.

I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.

Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most interested in. I suppose that's one reason I don't have much respect for fiction that seems to be game playing.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

I'm a Hollywood pinhead; I don't know about political labels.