Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.

[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.

Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

These are matters of life and death for our country and its people, and we deserve answers from Hillary Clinton.

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

Language is wine upon the lips.