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

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.

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.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

To know that God thinks about me is the beginning of my journey of faith.

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders.

We're all a little nit autistic.

To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.

We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist John Brown with Paul Giamatti.

If untouchability lives, humanity must die.

We have emails from donors. We got thousands and thousands of emails here that have been leaked and dumped, and I can't find any reference to climate change.

You only get so many firsts, each one is a blessing.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.