59 Quotes by Jim Starlin

Very little other than Elmore Leonard's crime writing inspiring me on my Batman run.

Not exactly sure there can be a final chapter to Thanos, considering what he is and his relationship with Mistress Death. Might just be that as long as there is a Marvel, there will be a Thanos to plague that universe's heroes.

I was just as crazy as everybody else post-Watergate, post-Vietnam.

As time went on, Thanos just sort of grew organically on his own.

When I started in the comic book business, 'Art Of' books were strictly the provenance of the greats, like Rembrandt and Da Vinci. But times change, and so do attitudes. Now the comic is considered an art form, and I hope 'A Life in Words and Pictures' contributes a little to that art form's history.

When folks are in desperate times - say, like being stuck in the middle of a long-running interplanetary war - they grasp onto anything that might keep them afloat.

The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state.

Thanos came to me while I was taking a psychology class in college after coming out of the service; the ol' Thanos/Eros concept.

If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.