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.

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

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

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.

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

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.