Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you’re scared as hell when it stops.

When animators weren’t sleeping, they were drinking.

I was 82 years old before Who’s Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we’re going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I’m anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

Parents look at me like I’m somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we’re enjoying them all over again with our children.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can’t take the process too personally.

I don’t know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you’re not dead.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.