“The metro section of the newspaper every day is full of stuff I can us...” — Brian Azzarello Quote

“The metro section of the newspaper every day is full of stuff I can use. It's the greatest inspiration for me because it's full of endings. That's where the ends of stories show up.”

“To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray.”

“DC characters are from a different era than Marvel characters.”

“'100 Bullets' is a novel on its own. 'Brother Lono,' other than the main character, has nothing to do with '100 Bullets.'”

“This thing is such a ripple, the way lives are affected by gentrification. On one hand, yes, you're cleaning up this area, you're making it more livable for people. But you're not saying anything about the people that live there.”

“It's depicted in comics as, like, this gung-ho, 'Let's die in battle, in glory' idea, because that's just the genre we're in. But that's not what war really is.”

“Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.”

“'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the next one.”

“That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.”

“In film, you can have sad endings.”

“Those 'Rocky' endings are great in the movies and on the stage, but I don't think it would be too smart for me to get into that kind of fight in the ring.”

“When you dream as a little kid, you dream about storybook endings and storybook players and scenarios like that.”