Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

Humor does depend on surprise, and the things that people remember as the funniest things in the world, you look at later and you go, "What? What was that all about?"

If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

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.

Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney.