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.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

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

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.