When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

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

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

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

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.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.