Quotes from Stan Lee

I think superheroes are bigger than life and they're very colorful.

I thought it would be great to do superheroes that have the same kind of life problems that any reader - that anybody could have.

I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

I'm just working with ideas in my head and with drawings that the artists did. And suddenly to see these things come to life in movies - it's just wonderful.

I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day.

There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.

I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.

My mother was the greatest mother in the world. She thought I was the greatest thing on two feet. I'd come home with a little composition I had written at school, and she'd look at it and say, 'It's wonderful! You're another Shakespeare!' I always assumed I could do anything. It really is amazing how much that has to do with your attitude.

The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for centuries and, I think, will always be with us.

I'm happiest when I'm working. If I'm not working, I feel like I'm wasting my time.

My biggest regret is that I don't really have time to read.

I'm the Chairman Emeritus, and according to my contract I am supposed to devote 10% of my time to working for Marvel... and the rest of my time, I can do anything that I wish.

I'm afraid I go through the same thing all the time.

I do conventions sometimes every other weekend. Whenever I have time, and it's not too far away. I get a lot of invitations (to appear at conventions) in other countries and I have to turn them down.

They sit together, physically separate but utterly connected by the moment they've created

With great power, there must also come, great responsibility

Fighting is the last resort of the ignorant!! -- Dr. Strange

To me, Writing is Fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

But she didn't know that when she was younger; then, the classroom was just a place that transformed itself based on whatever she was supposed to learn that day, like the Room of Requirement.

To my way of thinking, whether it's a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you've got to care about the characters. You've got to understand the characters and you've got to be interested. If the characters are interesting, you're half-way home.

Are you tryin' to defeat me by talking me to death?!' -- Peter Parker

He has to survive this, if only to avoid having his digital corpse kicked to pieces by those grunting, knuckle-dragging troglodytes otherwise known as commenters.

Reading is very good.

Life is never completely without challenges.