I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.

All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.

I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.

I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

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 the early part of my life.

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