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.

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.

Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.

How can you have a rock n' roll circus without a midget?

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing.

I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'

We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.

Be verbal in acknowledging your appreciation.

Whatever its origin, I'd like to see a cure for the Incredibly Shrinking Actress phenomena.

Frankly, it's never really been replicated in the history of the Internet what Yahoo has done in the areas it's done it.

My day starts at 4:30 A.M., and I sort of have two speeds: fast and stop.

And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.

When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Memory was supposed to fill the time but it made time a hole to be filled.

Now, I simply do what I want.

When I became of service to other people I stopped worrying about my weight so much.

The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.

I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do to get out of that corner. It's what makes drama drama.

I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?

My whole life is a vacation.

I had a chance to do acting again, and, I don't know, this has always been my plan of what I wanted to do.

The American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization.