You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

I believe that I am male and I am female.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

I think writers process their own experiences through the characters and situations they write. So for Batman, I used my own experience of losing a loved one. Grief is a strange place; it's like an altered state. You might sleep too much, so you can see the dead in your dreams.

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.