"Being on the cover of a magazine with my son is the best thing ever. It took me 18 years to get my first cover, he gets one at 8 months."

“I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.”

“Washington newspaper men know everything.”

“I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every route possible, but human beings invest a lot of cleverness trying to cling to past events, real or imagined. And because we can't succeed, we get angry and frustrated and feel guilty. Except the Buddhists.”

“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”

“That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.”

“It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. [Ger., Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen Aber gottlich zu verzeihn.]”

“I use omega-3 oil. I love light oil on my skin. It's one of my favorite feelings in the world.”

“Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.”

Source : "Jim Steranko talks comics, his new book and coming to Tampa". Interview with Brandon Jones, www.theglobaldispatch.com. February 29, 2012.