The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.

I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

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

The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.

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

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

I always resent anybody interfering with anybody else trying to do his job. Everybody has his own job to do. If he's good, he'll do well, but if he's mediocre, he's not going to do as well as he should.