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

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.

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.

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 quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household tell me there is not yelling and conflict.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.