I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.

My life changed when I was able to not only get seated in nice restaurants, I was given free appetizers. That was like, "Oh, my God, I've arrived".

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.

When you're as important as I am, getting your feelings hurt by me is almost an honor.

I'm a writer who just happens to draw.

I think people who work in comedy and humor are hesitant to analyze it too much, because you feel like if you take it apart, you'll break it and not be able to put it back together again.

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.