The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

There's things I know I'm good at, and those things interest me less and less. I learn a lot more from doing it wrong than I do from doing it right.

Any time I am involved in something from conception to execution, that's obviously a lot more personal, and I'm going to be more invested in it than something where I just show up for a couple days, shoot, and leave.

I take my coffee like I take my women... strong... black... and proud.

The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.

Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.

I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.