A Character To Me Can't Be Contrived.

Comics Have A Caste System - An Editor Has To Act In A Certain Way, An Artist Has To Be Humble.

You Fought Fair. If The Other Guy Wants To Fight And You Knocked Him Out, You Did Your Best For Him. You Didn't Want To Hurt Him Any More.

My Ambition Was Always To Be A Perfect Picture Of An American.

I Never Had Stock Endings. I Didn't Believe In Stock Endings. To Make The [reader] Happy Was Not My Objective, But To Make The [reader] Say, "yeah, That's What Would Happen" - That Was My Objective.

All Life On Earth Is Subject To The Rumbles And Rockings Of The Parent Stucture Which Has No Control Over The Disastrous Effects Of Its Stresses And Strains On Whatever Thrives On Its Surface. The Ambitions And Dreams Of Men Are Irrelevant To This Planetary Giant Which Pursues Its Own Way In Its Own Manner. Man Is Its Child, Tenant And Still, To This Date, Its Captive.