"The algorithm--and computer-generated knowledge--is a language. And language has always been used in ways to justify oppressing and killing people."

"We shouldn't be getting back to "normal." We should be getting back to the way things ought to have been."

"A black person out of place not only gets removed in real life, they need to be removed in the story...We see it on every level of society."

"That's really a powerful illustration of how our culture, if not our technologies, reshape these feelings that we think of as biological."

"There are a lot of scholars who are really eager to rename comics, to find some more respectable name for it, and I don't think that's necessary anymore [...] We need to stop pretending that we're writing about something else."

"Silence tends to indicate agreement and acquiescence. Silence tends to indicate agreement and acquiescence."

"Da Vinci has been done by da Vinci. Bach has been done by Bach. We want machines to produce something of their own."

"It's kind of like that scene in Psycho, where the lady's just been killed and Bates takes the car, and it doesn't quite go under the water. For that brief moment, you're sympathizing with Bates. Then you have to think to yourself: What are you doing?"

"There's a kind of serious play, I think, in mimicking that form."

"On page and screen, [superheroes] tend to be produced quite quickly, which means that they respond in perhaps a much more honest and organic way to trends, to anxieties, to social interests."