I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.

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.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

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

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

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.