“When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.”

“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.”

“There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.”

“I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.”

“I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.”

“You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse”

“Those that do teach young babesDo it with gentle means and easy tasks.”

“Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.”