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 hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death at stake. And so, I can live with myself knowing that it's not a matter of guts or anything like that. It's a matter of willingness to go the length, to transcend yourself.

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

I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!

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've never done anything bad. I can't do anything bad. It's got to be professional. It's got to look professional. It's got to read professional. In other words, it serves its purpose by entertaining a reader.