I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.

Ironically, many of people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.

I've always believed with age comes wisdom. And I find salt and pepper hair to be very attractive.

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.

I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.

I don't have time to worry about them when they are not.

Putin himself is a bit of a risk taker, so the invading Ukraine, in the east in particular - Crimea was risky.

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.