All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.

You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more.

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

I never had stock endings. I didn't believe in stock endings. To make the [reader] happy was not my objective, but to make the [reader] say, "Yeah, that's what would happen" - that was my objective.

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.

I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.