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.

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

I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.

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

Masturbation is nothing to be ashamed of. It's nothing to be particularly proud of, either.

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

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."