Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.

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.

Leaders cannot build a successful nation once they are yoked to these two evils, ignorance and greed.

It was unhealthy to get too attached. Such things were best reserved for people who had a life expectancy

We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!

What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.

Our goal as women should be to discover who we are and not who we think we should be or who the world wants us to be. It's not our responsibility to be arm candy!

The process is not simply of constructing a new tonal from scratch, but reordering the one you have.

I believe we're making really good progress in Iraq.

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is