I Feel Like An Independent Man, And

I Took A Great Joy With Inventing New Kinds Of Mechanisms. I Invented New Kinds Of Machines. I've Been A Student Of Science Fiction For A Long, Long Time, And I'm Very Well-versed In Science Fact And Science Fiction.

I Feel That Man Can Transcend Himself To A Point Where He Can Accomplish Greater Things Than He Thinks.

I Write From A People's Point Of View. I Love People Because I Understand Them. I Understand An Enemy, I Understand A Friend, I Understand Grey Areas, And I Understand Black Areas.

Everybody Can Draw, In My Estimation. If You Give A Man 50 Years, He'll Come Up With The Mona Lisa.

I Was Being Brought Up On Peasant Stories; My Mother Came From Europe And She'd Been A Peasant And That Was The Area Where The Frankensteins And The Draculas Came From And It Was Entertainment For The People. Nobody Had Tv, And That Was The Way Peasants Would Entertain Themselves, By Telling These Stories.