When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.
I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books.
After 911, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.
It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.
I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.
Jews are living in the past and they can't get over it.
If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.
The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"