I'm the Chairman Emeritus, and according to my contract I am supposed to devote 10% of my time to working for Marvel... and the rest of my time, I can do anything that I wish.

We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.

When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.

I guess one person can make a difference.

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.

Life is never completely without its challenges.

No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.

Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction.

Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.

The truth is often found in humour.

To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

I see the Beatles have arrived from England. They were 40 pounds overweight - and that was just their hair.

The things we hope for lead us to faith, while the things we hope in lead us to charity.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

I would be lying if I didn't say that the most inspirational place for me is Jamaica.

The vision always precedes reality.

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.