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 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 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 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.

Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.

Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.

That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

I just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable.

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

I can guarantee you nothing I do is a conscious attempt to inject something in.

You see, I needed to go to Hell.

Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals.

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.