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

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

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 cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

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

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.

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