I found that the majority of people who stopped at my table [ at the Comic Con] last didn't even know who Winnie the Pooh was, and the new feature was just opening in the theaters.

I learned that, "Mike, you get your first job on your ability and every job after that on your dependability."

I have my heroes. Some of whom are still alive, and unfortunately many that aren't.

I still have a lot my Disney store art left and if I ever run out I'll just redraw it, because it will still be my original art and as a freelancer I own it.

I did a dozen superhero pinups. I signed them "Kirby/Royer" because it was Kirby's drawing. I didn't think I was committing some sort of sin.

I will say that I'm proud of my connection to DC comics because they are absolutely fabulous in sending reprint royalty checks.

I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and paint salesman for Sherwin-Williams.

If you ever go to talk to an editor you don't want to be able to turn down a job because you can't do what is necessary.

I guess I've been naive my entire life.

Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.

I started out wanting to be a straight adventure cartoonist, but in 1979 realized what my real bag was.

You'll never be as OK with the thought of dying as you are in the moments when you know that you are truly living

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That’s a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works.

You may delay but time will not.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

There is such a belief in the squad that we could really do something.

Taxi drivers are the ones who pay me the most attention. They seem to be into River Cottage and have a dream of moving to the country, so I have chats with them.

I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican that I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive.

I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.