I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

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.

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.

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 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.

Never give up on yourself.You have divine abilities for a great mission.

To be supportive of myself, I have to go with what I want to do. I started acting and I was so mesmerized.

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

It's important to let your subjects be themselves.

I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'

Because of the booking I will miss the Holland game - if selected.

One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.

When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it's the only kind of relationship worth having.

If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question.

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.