We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

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.

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman. Homer Simpson

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

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.