I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends." It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I'd been spoon-fed.

Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.

Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.

People just want good stories.

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.