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.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.