I was hired as a penciler.

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.

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

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 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.

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

You know, sometimes I wish they would do this for us when we come home alive.

Hope is a flourishing flower.

Stray cats are like two-timing men. He got tired of you and took off. He doesn't find anyone new? He'll come slinking back. By then, if you're smart, you'll have decided you're better without him.

I am light and stardust in his hands.

I still climb Mount Everest just as often as I used to. I play polo just as often as I used to. But to walk down to the hardware store I find a little bit more difficult

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.

I take every opportunity I can to speak to librarians.