I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.