Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.

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!

If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.