Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

The first movie I can remember seeing was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. And, I can remember hearing a radio play of Ray Bradbury's Mars Is Heaven. And when I cut my teeth on comic books, they were not the easy ones of today like Spiderman, Superman and The Hulk. they were Tales Of The Crypt, The Vaultkeeper, and that sort of thing.