When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.

Ned, have you considered any of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same.

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

I don't mind sharing the blame if she'll just admit she started it.

The Simpsons and Futurama are such big projects, going on for years and working in different media, that everything involved with them, promotion and merchandise and online presence and all the rest, deserve to be scrutinized, so that's part of it. I have a great deal of sympathy for anyone at the core of a multimedia juggernaut, even if you might not care for the specific pop-culture invasion of your brain. The people who do it work really hard.

'The Simpsons' is an especially collaborative show.

The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.