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

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

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

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

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.

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