After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.

Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.

I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.

That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.

I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.

After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.

When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?

A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.

As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.

Silence is the respite of the confident and strong.

Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

I want to inspire, and be inspired.

Going to school at home saved my life as far as education went. My parents were able to give me the attention I needed.

Accepting your playful side is actually inner power being released. Playfulness is poweful.

You can go into caves, and they can maintain constant conditions of temperature and humidity over long periods of time, even though the outside temperature may be way above what it is inside the cave.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

I love doing television series.

I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.

I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.