W.D. Frank Quotes

Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay.

I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.

I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world

There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.

Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?

I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family.

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

Recognize your highest calling as early as possible in life.

Approach life knowing there will be plenty to go around. Be generous.

Proactively, and creatively, persist - day in and day out.

Recognize your highest calling as early in life as possible. Proactively and creatively persist, day in and day out. Leave an enduring legacy.

Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face.

I'll make it. I won't die. I've got too much I have to do to let myself die.

The American conscience died with the Kennedys.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to a single thing that has been published before, but it also stands on its own.

Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv.

The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.

I take away his weapon. Both of them.

Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

Of course we're Criminals

And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can’t look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.

I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.

If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken from him. He can no longer even communicate. That's the Tower of Babel.

Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of one God in an abstract philosophical way.

I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try to achieve a new innocence, a new naiveté.