Why Am I In Hell? It Hurts.

Study Yourself The Way A Hunter Studied Prey. Exploit Your Own Weaknesses To Create Desired Changes Within Yourself.

I’m A False Icon! The Media Collaborate In Promoting My Superficial Lifestyle As Somehow More Valid, More Worthy Of Attention Than Your Real Lives! - Gideon Stargrave

Writers And Artists Build By Hand Little Worlds That They Hope Might Effect Change In Real Minds, In The Real World Where Stories Are Read. A Story Can Make Us Cry And Laugh, Break Our Hearts, Or Make Us Angry Enough To Change The World.

I Plan Years In Advance, But I Like To Leave Enough Space In The Narrative Scheme To Change Things, Because I Always Get My Best Ideas The Closer I Come To The End Of A Project, After I've Lived With It For A While.

Because It All Derived From Superman. I Mean, I Love All The Characters, But Superman Is Just This Perfect Human Pop-culture Distillation Of A Really Basic Idea. He's A Good Guy. He Loves Us. He Will Not Stop In Defending Us. How Beautiful Is That? He's Like A Sci-fi Jesus. He'll Never Let You Down. And Only In Fiction Can That Guy Actually Exist, Because Real Guys Will Always Let You Down One Way Or Another. We Actually Made Up An Idea That Beautiful. That's Just Cool To Me. We Made A Little Paper Universe Where All Of The Above Is True.