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 feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.

Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!

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.

Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.

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

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.