It is a curious fact that with 'Through the Looking-Glass' the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me... I have done nothing in that direction since.

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.

A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

You have to make people realize your worth, else no one cares!

Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he is not alone in the way he feels about himself.

That man who lives for self alone Lives for the meanest mortal known.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

Oh, I'm a ballad queen for sure... I don't dig dance stuff very much but I seem to hit the charts with it. Go figure.

Our [American] leaders are so socialized as to address militarized threats by acting on the basis of a militarized mentality that the deep roots of problems are ignored.