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.

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

Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?”“They’re ravished in haylofts?” she inquired hopefully.

In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity.

Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.

Perpetual peace is a futile dream.

It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing.

If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.