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 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.

I was hired as a penciler.

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

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

If you ask me, it doesn't matter what life you're living, life never has a solution. No matter how hard the struggles are that you leave behind, new struggles always take their place.

Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.

I don't really think in terms of competing with myself.

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.