Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

You toyed with my heart, like it was a toy heart. (Lisa Simpson)

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

This doesn't happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not in America!" Homer Simpson

I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.

Are we alone in an uncaring universe, or is God some kind of wiseguy?

I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.