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

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.

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

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.

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

Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.

It's madness, of course', thought Moist. 'But now I've got it, too.

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

Some sports teams hate each other in the locker room and that's what makes them great.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

There you go. Use your granddaughter to pick up women. That'll get you points in heaven.

Try to pick a fund manager who has a well-defined strategy, has been through these things before, and go invest and stay with him.

It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.