I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

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

Inspiration is an empty bank account.