Writer

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.

One of the things I don't like about film is its incredible immersive quality. It's kind of bullying - it's very big, it's very flashy, it's got a lot of weight and it throws it around almost to the detriment of the rest of our culture.

I love films that are made with almost no budget.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves. I apparently know some people who try to achieve this by logging off or going without their Twitter or Facebook for a limited period.

I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.

Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us.

When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during our lives, into a golden consciousness, which is a much better place to be.

I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.

I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.

I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems with it. And on the surface you can see that the Internet could go an awful long way to educating, enlightening, informing and connecting the world.

I've got nothing against America, but I went over there a couple of times and didn't really like it. I mean, not that I like England that much, but it's somewhere to live.

No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before the immense and implacable forces of history and progress. I just hope that they don't make too much of a mess or take too many more people down with them.

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.