I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best.

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.

We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)

We still have a problem here in this country of access to airports and airplanes [for terrorists].

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.

Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival.

It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.

The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.