When you're as important as I am, getting your feelings hurt by me is almost an honor.

I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.

My standard comment is, If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.

When you're as important as I am, getting your feelings hurt by me is almost an honor.

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.'