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“Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after a while they had more writing than they could handle and I was the only guy around, so they said, "Hey Stan, you think you can write this?" When you're seventeen years old, what do you know? I said, "Sure, I can do it!" And that was it.”
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“Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.”
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“Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject: One can judge a building without knowing where to buy the bricks; one can understand a violin sonata without knowing how to score for the instrument. The work may in fact be better understood without a knowledge of the details of its manufacture, of attention to these tends to distract from meaning and effect.”
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“The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.”
Source : "The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience" by Sam Hinton, Western Folklore, 14.3, July 1965.
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“A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which occur, has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contemplations.”
Source : "A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy". Book by John Herschel, 1830.
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“I like to think of climate action as a three-legged stool.”
Source : "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014. 
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“The scoreline is a bit flattering really.”
Source : "Steven Gerrard on the spot as Liverpool progress against Oldham" by Andy Hunter, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.
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“What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?”
Source : Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press
