Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.

I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'

The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.