I was happy because I made enough money to give to my parents. I made enough money to get married on. I made enough money to enjoy myself a little more than I would have if I didn't have enough money.
Jack KirbyThe people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.
Jack KirbyI 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.
Jack KirbyAn American is a guy, a rich guy with a family, a decent guy with a family with as many kids as he likes, doing what he wants, working with people that he likes, and enjoying himself to his very old age.
Jack KirbyThere was one time they knocked me out and laid me in front of my mother's door. And in order for my mother not to be shocked they readjusted my clothes and they saw that nothing was rumpled and I looked very comfortable next to the apartment door, so when my mother would open the door it wouldn't be that much of a shock.
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