I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.
The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.
It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.
Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird beam from the Moth Signal summoned the Gangland Guardian to the aid of desperate criminals ?And who can forget the eerie Moth Cave where new and startling implements of crime were produced by this evil genius !
If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.
Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.
The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy.
Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.
You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do. But when people don't take time out, they stop being productive. They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of everyone around them.
My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.