“We know how ninety-nine percent of the universe works," he told Carter shortly after they met, "and that's the clockworks, that's what we build with. But the other one percent makes the clockworks wind down. That's inertia. No one knows how that works, but it does. It's that one percent mystery that's the way of our maker. Put everything together, energy and inertia, the explicable and the inexplicable, and that's how you and I make our living.” UniverseMysteryInertiaInexplicableCarter Beats The DevilClockworks Author:Glen David Gold
“There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.” EndsMomentsSawsTransformationFloweringDisappearance Author:Glen David Gold
“Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly concerned with hitting his page count, telling good stories, and keeping his family fed. Not pursuing some aesthetic ideal - to seek that motive in Kirby's work was, he suggested, misguided. I happened to be holding the original artwork to the Devil Dinosaur #4 double-splash, which I turned around and showed Eisner - who took a moment, and said something uncharacteristic: “Okay, I might be wrong.” SaidMomentsStoriesMightFeltHappenedCallingPagesDevilConcernedIdealsOkayOriginalsHeavyArtisticUncomfortableMotiveFedsAestheticHittingGood StoryDinosaursArtworkMisguidedParaphrase Author:Glen David Gold
