If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.

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."

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for all eternity.

I have to say that The Simpsons comes from a huge number of great writers headed by Al Jean, the show-runner, and the work that they do is really fantastic. It's a blast just to sit around with them in the writers' room and listen to all the filthy jokes that will never get on the air.

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.