Quotes from Jack Kirby

Perfectionists are their own devils.

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

Life at best is bittersweet.

I didn't like Army life. I didn't like taking orders. I didn't like discipline. I didn't like being yelled at. You'd get 10 years for punching a sergeant so I couldn't punch a sergeant.

Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!

Ideas can never be traced to any one source. They are tossed back and forth between people until the decision makers step in and choose what they think is a success formula.

I didn't resolve the questions... and I find that entertaining. And if my life were to end tomorrow, it would be fulfilled in that manner. I would say, 'The questions have been terrific.'

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so you began to associate them.

I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.

My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody in sight.

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal 'em. Take those hands.

All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.

You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more.

It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.