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

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

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.

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