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

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.

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

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

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

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