We've got to start spending money in other places,

God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”)

'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn't get that going in my mind. I don't know exactly where the idea of just a man pitting himself against a robot boxer came from.

Come out, Neville.

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.