For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.
I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.
So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.
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.
He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.
Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.
I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.
The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.