I love pre-code movies. Some of my favorites are movies with Warren William and there is an MGM film called "Skyscraper Souls" which is the best Warner Brothers movie that MGM ever made.

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 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.

When things don't happen, people get Sick. They see time Tick and they want it Quick. They forget that Success happens brick by brick.

I felt like Dirty Harry, only, my weapon wasn’t as big as his! I don’t know what it is with guns, but once you’ve got your hand on one, you think you’re one of the untouchables.

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played with my brother and cousins.

Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

The absent feel and fear every ill.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.