High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

Time is but an illusion created by beings with limited perception.

In each painting, I think, it’s as if  God were giving up on finishing the world.

The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die.

A beautiful girl in the library whispered to herself, "I too peek from the book shelves, but I can't stare longer.

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming

The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.

Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us together today.