I love seeing guys on the worst possible day and watching them scramble.

I read like fiends smoke crack

The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them.

I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when it needs to be dealt.

Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.

With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.

Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next Stephen King.

We do not have control over what happens to us. But we have the courage to conquer.

To desist from a continual hurt is to discover purpose

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

Sometimes in order to make progress and move ahead, you have to stand up and do the wrong thing.

I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young.

Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also.

Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.

Brands must become architects of community.

Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.