"He’s like a pizza with the works. He’s a touch of Zorro, a dash of Dracula, a helping of the Shadow and a bunch of Sh…"

"The name “Bane” popped out at me while looking through a thesaurus to compile a list of possible names. That’s the na…"

"I’ve seen my characters morphed into PC cyphers. But the thing is once I’m done working on them, it’s like watching y…"

"O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free, The shrine of each patriot's devotion, A world…"

"Three cheers for the red, white, and blue."

"The key to my parties is the small tables That way people do not have to talk only to the people on their right or le…"

"I was never interested in real estate; I was just interested in New York."

"I called many buildings and they said, ‘We would never take a Vanderbilt or an Astor — they’re the 1880s, and we’re t…"

"I became a success almost overnight because I really made a study of the establishment to figure out how to outwit them."

"I only wanted a girl and I only wanted her born on Sunday and I wanted her to be a Taurus, not Gemini."