In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

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

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

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

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

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