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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."

"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."

"No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time."

"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."

"Fear is the mother of morality."

"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
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"The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other."

"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."

"In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better."

"As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad."

"The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant."

"George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already."

"From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now."

"I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor."
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