All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.

Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world.

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.

There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some of them rather than studying the way that Stan Lee or Chris Claremont depict people.