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.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.

When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.

When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.

For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.

The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.

Iraq is a small but very proud nation.

I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be altered by it - and it is important to be.

Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

Fate is written in the face.

You can't be controlling in improv.

A true intention or belief does not need to be spoken it is revealed through one's action.

After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is.

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.

A million years went by quick.

Nothing has come from this whole 'peace industry' except for conferences in five-star hotels and a waste of money.

Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?'

Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it.

My public school teachers did a great job of saying, 'Check this out. You're qualified for this. You should explore these opportunities.' They're the ones who said, 'You know, apply to Harvard. You might be a good fit here.'