You had to grow up sometime. The fellows who grew early, they were in jeopardy. They became the cops and the crooks, and the crooks became the gangsters. The crooks became the Al Capones.

I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way. I feel that it hurts people, it hurts their families.

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

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

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

I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going to create any great masterpieces like Rembrandt or Gauguin. I thought comics was a common form of art, and strictly American in my estimation, because America was the home of the common man - and show me the common man that can't do a comic. So comics is an American form of art that anyone can do with a pencil and paper.

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.