The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.-The Watcher in The Avengers #14

People are pissed off about the seemingly impossible goal of social mobility. their proposed solution is to take the wheels off the cart.

Everybody wants to feel that you're writing to a certain demographic because that's good business, but I've never done that ... I tried to write stories that would interest me. I'd say, what would I like to read?... I don't think you can do your best work if you're writing for somebody else, because you never know what that somebody else really thinks or wants.

I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth. You get a little bit older, you can't read fairy tales any more.

When writing, I model all the heroes after myself. Of course, it's hard to make them quite as wonderful as I am, but I come as close as I can.

I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.

There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.