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

Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

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

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

If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry, but that doesn't mean they're evil or anything, it just means they fall into bad grace somehow.

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

I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.