I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.

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

Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.

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

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.

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