"I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day..." — Alan Moore

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

In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore.

When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.

I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.