People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.

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.

Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.

So now we are young still but a better sort of young.

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

I'm not good at talking about myself.

I try to reach out to my idols.