I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

Life at best is bittersweet.

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.

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

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

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.