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.

I read like fiends smoke crack

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

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

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.

If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else

Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.

So, yes, at least from my end. You could say there's a lot of Alison [McGhee] in Gollie too.

I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.

I wear the mask. It does not wear me.

I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!

It's probably hard to be married to me. It's not easy.

There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

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