I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

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.

What hath night to do with sleep?

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.

Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and to explore life.

The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed.

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

I believe a radiant, light-filled tomorrow should be normal to the experience of living.

The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.