Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.

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.

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.

To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.

If you want to have more, you have to become more.

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.

I'm a 4-wheel-drive pickup type of guy. So is my wife.

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.