Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that.

Nice characters are boring!

I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live.

The important thing about doing art and writing is that we are using our voices and using them really, really loudly. And to any girls or young women who want to write comics, I tell them, You have to use your voice. You have to take up space. We have to fight to be heard. No one else is going to fight for us.

I believe that the mainstream publishers, DC and Marvel, need to catch up as well. Out of the fifty-odd books that are published each month, just a handful are written by women, and even less of those are written by women of color. It's not right, and it's not good for the companies in the long-term. It's also not good for fans, for readers.

He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass.

The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that we're in the position to do that, and I don't take it for granted.

Miracles pass and I see. Great wonders speak and I listen.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.