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.

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.

Sporting success doesn't happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.

Maybe I have an affinity for Andy Griffith because we both grew up in North Carolina.

I have a memory of my mother kneeling in front of a cabinet in our home, tenderly cradling her wedding china. We never used the plates; she died in her 40s without ever letting herself enjoy these gorgeous pieces. I told myself that I would use my precious items.

Teeth aren't pearly, until you smile.

The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation.

There ain't no troubles that we can't rise above, with a handful of faith and a heartful of love.

No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

There was a phase in my career in my late 20s and 30s when I was doing strange, arty-farty Euro films that were, you could tell, never had much chance of any release anywhere in the world.

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.

Happiness is a grateful spirit, an optimistic attitude, and a heart full of love.

The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

Biceps for show triceps for go.

We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.

New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.

A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket.

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

I'm more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It's just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves.