"If a story isn't working, I'm simply..." - Quote by Len Wein

“I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.”

“It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.”

“There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.”

“When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.”

“Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”

“A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.”

“If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.”

“Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.”

“A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.”