As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
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.
It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit.
THE REASON I CAN BE 38 AND HAVE TWO KIDS AND WEAR A BIKINI IS BECAUSE I WORK MY ASS OFF. IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT. IT'S NOT LUCK, IT'S NOT FAIRY DUST, IT'S NOT GOOD GENES. IT'S KILLING MYSELF FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF FIVE DAYS A WEEK, BUT WHAT I GET OUT OF IT IS RELATIVE TO WHAT I PUT INTO IT.
Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology,. . . There's not a lot of realistic, observant writing about the West right now.
They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.