There are still people who don't like my work and that's okay with me.

I learned that, "Mike, you get your first job on your ability and every job after that on your dependability."

I have my heroes. Some of whom are still alive, and unfortunately many that aren't.

I found that the majority of people who stopped at my table [ at the Comic Con] last didn't even know who Winnie the Pooh was, and the new feature was just opening in the theaters.

I still have a lot my Disney store art left and if I ever run out I'll just redraw it, because it will still be my original art and as a freelancer I own it.

I did a dozen superhero pinups. I signed them "Kirby/Royer" because it was Kirby's drawing. I didn't think I was committing some sort of sin.

I will say that I'm proud of my connection to DC comics because they are absolutely fabulous in sending reprint royalty checks.

I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and paint salesman for Sherwin-Williams.

If you ever go to talk to an editor you don't want to be able to turn down a job because you can't do what is necessary.

I guess I've been naive my entire life.

Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.

Planning is the key to success, course he who fails to plan has actually plan to fail

If the journey to success and happiness was hundred miles, some people would calculate it by meters and get discouraged by the numbers they come up with.

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

Banish Air from Air Divide Light if you dare

It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party.

He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.