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

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.

No one in this body wants to see terrorism and the rule of force prevail in Iraq. Some on the other side say otherwise, but I believe they know better.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

I don't believe you can absolutely have it all.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

Today the comic book industry is an entertainment business not unlike Hollywood. Just as there are popular actors there are also the star comic book creators writers and pencilers who attract crowds of hundreds sometimes thousands of eager autograph seeking fans at every comic book convention they attend.

Never trust a species that grins all the time. Its up to something.

There's no reason to continue including language in the federal spending bill to prohibit the CDC and NIH from studying the causes or effects of gun violence on public health.

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage and I promise you something great will come of it.

When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

Missing your lunch is not exactly the end of the world.

I hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I've found Him to be.

When my work gets crazy, I make sure to always have vitamins, water and proper food with me. That has helped me to lose 33 pounds.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters... You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.

I never do anything to my hair. I just wash it. It tends to get dry, so I just try to put good, natural oils in it. I do a deep conditioning mask, which is quite good.

Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.