Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.

The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.