I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.

I was being brought up on peasant stories; my mother came from Europe and she'd been a peasant and that was the area where the Frankensteins and the Draculas came from and it was entertainment for the people. Nobody had TV, and that was the way peasants would entertain themselves, by telling these stories.

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.

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

I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.

I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were a challenge - what kind of monster would fascinate people?