Hopefully I'm learning a lesson from every new thing I write, whether it features guys in spandex or not.

I went back and started reading with Thor's first appearance, and my goal is to read all 600-plus issues in a row.

Over the course of my entire Wolverine career, I went from being a single guy to getting married and having kids, and I think you can see that progression in the way that I treated Wolverine.

Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day.

The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

I grew up in the D.C. suburbs, and what I like about that place is that there's not a strong regional affect in the cultural imagination like there is in Dallas or San Francisco or New York City. You have a little more freedom as a novelist this way. The suburbs become a generic idea, and the place doesn't intrude into the narrative.

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.