I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.

The only problem is time.

'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.

Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.

The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

You gotta keep the funny intact.

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

I'm the guy in the crowd making fun of the hero's shirt.

The passing time is painful. I have lost the art of moving simply, naturally, within it. I am swept back against its flow. Angry, vindictive, it pierces me all the time, all the time with its spikes.

Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.

There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others.

Sometimes you must earn the right to be included. Otherwise, you may appear awkward or pushy.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus.

Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about.

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

I firmly believe that you can't manufacture chemistry with anyone, let alone a kid.

Jihadists are acting against the interests of every single country.