I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.

Kid ... Comics will break your heart.

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

Our dreams make us large.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.

I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.

What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other ‘flaws’.

Many problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them.

Vayoo ansha.”I shook my head and whispered, “Never. For good and always, you have lost me. Na me lapay kahLahn. Not anymore.”**

God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.