In the Army when we had judo classes, out of the class of 27 just me and another guy graduated. I grew to enjoy it because I knew I could do it well. I tried to do everything well.

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.

Love never had a stronger pull, then from Souls coming together for a joint purpose.

She said they needed to put down a real root system to achieve their potential

I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but I'd not give it up.

What is more important - Pretending to live OR living your life? Forget about what others think about you and your way of living. Live your life the way you like it.

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it you might as well laugh about it now.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.

Jews ate the English nation to its bones.

A man with courage has every blessing.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.