Superman is going to live forever. They'll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt, in that respect, I was doing the same thing. I wanted to be known. I wasn't going to sell a comic that was going to die quickly.

I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best.

In the Army when we had judo classes, out of the class of 27 just me and another guy graduated. I grew to enjoy it because I knew I could do it well. I tried to do everything well.

I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.

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.

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

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