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

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 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 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.

In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence—wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.

As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

The Internet's a big enough place for everybody to be happy.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.

I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.

She was gorgeous and fearless and I was in awe.

I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.