My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

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.

A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile

I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.

You can recognize a saint by the wounds they don't disguise.

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.

The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.

I hope that something better comes along.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

I don't really map anything out. I just let it happen [while writing]. But once it happens, it's always there. If it's laid, it's played. If I get to page 300 and it's not working, I junk it.