It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers.

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories.

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.