You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.

The world ends when I die. And as far as I'm concerned, the rest of the universe might as well call it a day too.

It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.

The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.

Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.