What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.