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.

'All in the Family' took ten weeks to take off in 1971, and we were lucky to start in January, because if it had started in the regular fall season of 1970, I don't know if we would have lasted. The ratings didn't take off until the end of that fall season, when the other two networks ran out of fresh shows.

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

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

When something is over, it is over.

We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television.

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.