I wish I knew how we achieve the goal of world peace. My bumper sticker reads 'Just Another Version of You.' The sooner we agree that we're just other versions of each other - we human beings - the sooner we will find some sense of world peace.

Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

That's a very hard thing to help the establishment know. We're still an establishment that thinks the average mentality is something like 13 years of age, that never forgot H.L. Mencken's notion that nobody lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American people. That's the horseshit the establishment has always lived with.

Life is about having a good time.

I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.

I think for television generally, the question that often arises is, "Does television lead, or does it follow?" You know, does it lead the conversation, or culture, or does it follow what's going on? And I think it does both.