The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.

I don't want to take somebody else's beating. That makes me unhappy.

I didn't like Army life. I didn't like taking orders. I didn't like discipline. I didn't like being yelled at. You'd get 10 years for punching a sergeant so I couldn't punch a sergeant.

I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.

I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.

Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.

Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so you began to associate them.