I Had Very High Respect For The

I Admired Anybody Who Could Make A Buck With His Drawing.

A Character To Me Can't Be Contrived. I Don't Like To Contrive Characters. They Have To Have An Element Of Truth.

If America Gave Anybody Anything It Is Ambition. Bad Things Would Come Out Of It Because Some Guys Are In A Hurry, But That Doesn't Mean They're Evil Or Anything, It Just Means They Fall Into Bad Grace Somehow.

You Had To Grow Up Sometime. The Fellows Who Grew Early, They Were In Jeopardy. They Became The Cops And The Crooks, And The Crooks Became The Gangsters. The Crooks Became The Al Capones.

There Was One Time They Knocked Me Out And Laid Me In Front Of My Mother's Door. And In Order For My Mother Not To Be Shocked They Readjusted My Clothes And They Saw That Nothing Was Rumpled And I Looked Very Comfortable Next To The Apartment Door, So When My Mother Would Open The Door It Wouldn't Be That Much Of A Shock.