312 Quotes by Matt Groening

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.

Being a good embalmer is a thankless job.

When DVDs finally disappear, I'm going to be sad. I'll miss the commentaries.

If at first you don't succeed - give it up. It isn't worth the pain.

Buy Space Ghost cereal, but don't eat the prizes.

In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.

The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.