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

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.

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

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.

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.It’s about the writer you’re becoming while creating.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

I'm gonna be a character in a Happy Meal.

I’m not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

I detect more good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.

I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more #‎ romantic than the present day

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

I think it's important to be an absolute believer and have that confidence.