There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

Anything Freed with Guns will Go Back Eventually.

You can’t patch cracks on a glass house.

I gaze at his pale skin as this energy hits me. My jaw is clamped tight as my eyes squeeze out the pain. I’ve felt this before. It’s like he’s telling me to let him go.

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.

Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.

My job is to get people back to work and make tough decisions. I've been willing to do it.

Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then.