I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were a challenge - what kind of monster would fascinate people?

I don't want to take somebody else's beating. That makes me unhappy.

My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.

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

Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.