Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

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

This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without the need to look at your words as if they were already printed and bound. The beginning is only a draft. Drafts are imperfect by definition.

The older you get the more you live in the past

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do every day - every morning or every night, whatever time it is that you have. Ideally, the time you decide on is also the time when you do your best work.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.