The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them.

I read like fiends smoke crack

I love seeing guys on the worst possible day and watching them scramble.

I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when it needs to be dealt.

Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.

With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.

Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next Stephen King.

Your mistakes aren’t learning experiences…if you aren’t learning from them.

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

These are matters of life and death for our country and its people, and we deserve answers from Hillary Clinton.

I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.

Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.

Women aren't interested in being sexy any more and men are. All the guys have objectified themselves and sexualised themselves into being just matinee idols.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.