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.

I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.

Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so you began to associate them.

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

I began to learn about the universe myself and take it seriously. I know the names of the stars. I know how near or far the heavenly bodies are from our own planet. I know our own place in the universe. I can feel the vastness of it inside myself. I began to realize with each passing fact what a wonderful and awesome place the universe is, and that helped me in comics because I was looking for the awesome.

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

The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.