To do more for the world than it does for you — that is success.

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Money is only a tool in business. It is just a part of the machinery.

Nothing is particularly hard if you subdivide it into small jobs.

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know.

I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.