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

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!

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 Draculas came from and it was entertainment for the people. Nobody had TV, and that was the way peasants would entertain themselves, by telling these stories.

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. He wasn't kidding around. There were no jokes involved. Nobody was in the mood to joke unless you hit a guy with a baseball bat.

If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other illustrations or duplicate what you've drawn, but it will never have that gut reality that's instinctive in the artist.

Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.