I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I'd keep my job.

We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.

When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.

I guess one person can make a difference.

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.

Life is never completely without its challenges.

No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.

Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction.

Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.

I honestly think that depression, unhappiness or the feeling of emptiness is more a lack of amazement about life than anything else.

Mum, your heart is the same size as your fist, ’ she told me once in delight, and we both made our hands into fists and held them against our chests and bumped them together: hands as hearts.

Teachers' favorite color ink, splashed and dripped down his face a grisly reminder of mistakes bruising his life.

Indeed the presence of outstanding strengths presupposes that energy needed in other areas has been channeled away from them.

Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.

Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.