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

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

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

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

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

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.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.