When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.

Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

If I waited until I felt creative, I would never have had a career. I long ago learned that a day that starts out badly, when nothing comes out on the page or comes out wrong, can suddenly turn into a good day a few hours later, when suddenly everything starts to click. The brain can be cajoled into being creative.

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.