I have my heroes. Some of whom are still alive, and unfortunately many that aren't.

I learned that, "Mike, you get your first job on your ability and every job after that on your dependability."

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 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 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.

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want.

If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.

What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.

Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd.

Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.

I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.

Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!