The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Artists don't need criticism, artists need love

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.

Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn how to live with that razor-sharp instrument or art. An artist who comes to me with eight or ten good drawings of the human figure in simple lines has a good chance of being hired. But I will tell the artist who comes with a bunch of drawings of Bugs Bunny to go back and learn how to draw the human body. An artist who knows that can learn how to draw ANYTHING, including Bugs Bunny.

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'