The cliché I tried to avoid was I hated "teenage sidekicks." I always figured if I were a superhero, there's no way on God's earth that I'm gonna pal around with some teenager. So my publisher insisted I have a teenager in the series, because they always felt teenagers won't read the books unless there's a teenager in the story; which is nonsense.

Luck is one of the most important things in the world and really has a role to play in everything, and in marriage, I've been lucky enough to be married to the same girl for all these years.

I do conventions sometimes every other weekend. Whenever I have time, and it's not too far away. I get a lot of invitations (to appear at conventions) in other countries and I have to turn them down.

No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested in what you're writing.

I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.

To me everything is fun. I've started Twittering or tweeting recently and that's been fun.

I'm not that familiar with Andrew Garfield, but if the powers that be chose him, I'm sure he'll be good.