The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.

The only thing I cannot predict is the future

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

Supreme Court nominees should be individuals who not only understand, but truly respect the equal roles and responsibilities of different branches of government and our state governments.

Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi

Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.