The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.

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.

How then did it work out, this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it was liking one felt, or disliking?

Most of the time we are so busy letting our actions speak for us that nobody can hear our words.

The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.

The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.

Why, the little Voice inside my head, of course. You mean you don't have one? I did.

It's nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.

You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.