I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.

I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

I never had stock endings. I didn't believe in stock endings. To make the [reader] happy was not my objective, but to make the [reader] say, "Yeah, that's what would happen" - that was my objective.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

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

My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.