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.

I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.

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

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.

Ed Simmons and I became stars in the emerging medium of television. We were new and fresh, just like TV at the time, so we automatically became 'THE' comedy writers for television.