No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.

With "Futurama," I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our original plan was never to have Fry and Leela get together, we finally just said, "You can only string the fans along so far."

When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!" (Homer Simpson)

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show's really funny, it's got a heart, so I think it's pretty safe.

I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show.