Some of my friends became gangsters. You became a gangster depending upon how fast you wanted a suit. Gangsters weren't the stereotypes you see in th….

I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I came out with the atom bomb two ….

It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do i….

Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people because they protect you, but I d….

A climb-out fight is where you climb a building. You climb fire escapes. You climb to the top of the building. You fight on the roof, and you fight a….

Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa..

My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's always been my prime object in ….

Kid ... Comics will break your heart..

I was being brought up on peasant stories; my mother came from Europe and she'd been a peasant and that was the area where the Frankensteins and the ….

I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well..

My purpose was what my father's purpose was - to make a living and to have a family. I was going to do the right thing. My dream to me was to have mo….

A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style..

Perfectionists are their own devils..

I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in th….

I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas….

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her..

I couldn't draw anything that was too outlandish or too horrible. I never did that. What I did draw was something intriguing. There was something abo….

There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When a man said something, he meant it.….

There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would never tell a lie, never hurt another hum….

I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who d….

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through..