Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus.

By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.

I was hired as a penciler.

I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.

Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper.

What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.

The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take the hidden paths.

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.