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Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'

I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.

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.

I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

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 would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

I've said all along I've never competed with 'The Simpsons.' Not in my own mind.