In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.
Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball.
I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.
When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.
I'd forgotten how challenging comics can be until I started working on Ropes. Yes, you're restricted by the boundaries of the page, but we all work within technical limitations of some kind.
I just hope you have as much fun letting it spin as I did putting it together.
My dad once told me: no matter what anyone says or writes, really, none of those people have to hit your four- foot putt. You have to go do it yourself.
The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.