Power is the goal of religion in general.

The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.

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

Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.

I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.

Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate... Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.

Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'