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

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.

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.

Life at best is bittersweet.

Life gives us the greatest opportunity to serve and be happy.

Chin up, and we'll drown a little slower.

Have you ever been at a point that you don't know what to say? But yet you came up with this crazy idea to type this.

I didn't have a heart until I meet you.That smile is killin me too.I can't look away.Can I always stay?I can't look away.I need to stay.I didn't have a heart until I meet you.

A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier.

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.

Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people.

It might drive some people crazy, living like this, but the quiet keeps me company.

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.