I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields.

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

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

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.

I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.

I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.

Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.