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

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.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Faith takes God without any ifs. If God says anything, faith says, "I believe it"; faith says, "Amen" to it.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender

I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier.