Citations

The idea for the character of Tintin and the sort of adventures that would befall him came to me, I believe, in five minutes, the moment I first made a sketch of the figure of this hero: that is to say, he had not haunted my youth nor even my dreams. Although it's possible that as a child I imagined myself in the role of a sort of Tintin.

What if I told you that I put my whole life into Tintin?

By believing in his dreams, man turns them into reality.

If! If! You can get 'round anything with 'if'.

Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!

Personally, I need to be constantly surprised by my own inventions. Besides, my stories are always created in the same way. I know my starting point, and I know more or less where I want to end up, but the route I take to get there depends on my whim of the moment.

After me there will be no more Tintin. Tintin is my creation - my blood, my sweat, my guts.

[on being asked how he saw himself after all these years] I see myself in a mirror.