But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

First of all there was a guy named Charles Nicholas, who used to do all of the inking that Jack and Simon didn't do. Simon used to do splashes and covers, but Charles Nicholas, after a while, did the inside of all of the stuff.

I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus.

Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.

All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.

Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers.

I was hired as a penciler.

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else exactly as you are.

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch.

My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I was a good kid. My parents laid rules out for me, and I followed them.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey Mantle. He had purchased the most coveted items auctioned by the Mantle family at Madison Square Garden in December 2003.

I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Life is a flow of love, only your participation is requested.

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff on our predominantly black audience. After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff.