When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.

Lawyer even sounds like liar.

... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going - blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events.

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers.

Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.