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Quotes by Cartoonist
"Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow."
"I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while."
"Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have."
"About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation."
"A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose."
"If I had a nickel for every time I said "Why me?" I'd have probably said "Why me?" more often."
Time,
"If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one."
"I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time."
"If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind."
"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."
"What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience."
"These days an income is something you can't live without - or within."
"There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past."
"I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow."
Will,
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
"I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design."
"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."
"I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core."
"I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me."
"I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach."
"I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt."
"I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important."
"The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?"
"I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort."
"If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong."
"The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil."
"Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title."
"Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback."
"Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could."
"People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story."
"In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you."
"In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home."
"There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed."
"When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine."
"What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has."
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"When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes."
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