In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

I should just keep me mouth shut, I just upset people.

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.