But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus.

By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.

I was hired as a penciler.

I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.

It’s time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It’s time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It’s time we give our kids a fighting chance.

, , So maybe, for me, home is not the city, but the people.

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.

You can find tea in a tea cup.. but cannot find world in a world cup.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

[Winning the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]definitely opened some doors.

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.