Quotes from Matt Groening

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.

I'm a writer who just happens to draw.

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Lisa: 'Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?' Homer: 'Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.'

Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?

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.

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.

I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.

Sales man: You got time for lunch? Homer: Yeah..but I usually have 2 or 3. Salesman: You like thai? Homer: Yeah, ya like shirt?

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.

I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show's really funny, it's got a heart, so I think it's pretty safe.

The scary thing about the future... there will be tiny cameras everywhere, and they'll be flying around like mosquitoes and drones. That will be bad. Drones are scary. You can't reason with a drone.

You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.

Me fail english? Thats unpossible.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. - Maker of the Simpsons

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come.

How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?