We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

In my 90-plus years, I have lived a multitude of lives.

America is a country of excess.

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

We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one customer to come in...and that customer was Jerry Lewis. It generated so much controversy that Dean [Martin] and Jerry [Lewis] had to apologize in a full page ad in Variety.

'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.

My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.