Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling "Bart," and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.

If at first you don't succeed - give it up. It isn't worth the pain.

I always thought that television was the way to go in my goal to invade pop culture because it got to towns in which there were no bookstores. That's how I used to think of it: How do I reach kids who not only don't read but probably have no access to much in the way of books?

Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.

We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so.

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

Part of the fun of being alive is knowing that you're annoying the hell out of someone else.