People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.

You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.