I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love.

These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.

I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.