A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

I feel happy to terrify kids.

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!