If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

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 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.

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

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

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