Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

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

I think for television generally, the question that often arises is, "Does television lead, or does it follow?" You know, does it lead the conversation, or culture, or does it follow what's going on? And I think it does both.

I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

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

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