I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.

If you want to be free of the wars of the world, begin by resolving the wars within you. If you want to see the world at peace, create peace within your mind.

When people die, ' she said softly, 'It doesn't necessarily mean you're ready to give them up.

I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

You never want to be forced to do something. But the world around you starts to influence you in ways you never expected.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

The fact that we are aware of ourselves is both our greatest curse and also our greatest blessing.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.