I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.

The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.

I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side.

This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

My mood depends on the girl whom I love, but she is like a wildest hurricane, drifting shore to shore.

The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

I know her in the biblical senseand when I say that, I mean I don't believe a word she says.

I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark.

Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.