All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

The purpose of my life is not to get what I want. The purpose of my life is to become who I am.

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

One slumber finds another.

One must overcome history by dogma.

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

Yo! Deadheads," he yelled, waving his sword to taunt them. "Nice try, but you're messing with Benny-freaking-Imura, zombie killer. Booyah!

I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on going or it ends.

People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

As a human being, the way Jesus responded to God in faithful obedience and gave his life in service to other humans-is the pattern for all authentic humanity renewed by the Spirit of God.