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.

The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

A hardware startup with a lot of funding and a lot of momentum has a lot less risk.

There is not a single leaf which is a mere ornament; all contribute to the fruitfulness of the earth, and the support of its inhabitants.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Hey, I was raised in the church.

Who can forget that in critical times of war in 1962, 1965 and 1971, Naga underground organisations did not fire on the Indian Army? They showed restraint.

There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him.

Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.

I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.

When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism.

I'm very happy in France making movies.

Your words are teeth. And they eat me alive. Feed on my corpse instead.

The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.

Washington was a swamp. It was not somewhere that they believed people would want to go, so the idea was that people got involved as a public service, not to make a career out of it.

A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.

I don't play racing games, unless it's 'Mario Kart.'

I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.

A great song will be great forever – it’s timeless and classic in that way.

This country consumes more pornography than any other country in the world.

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.