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.

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

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

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

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

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.

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.