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.

If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.

That's a very hard thing to help the establishment know. We're still an establishment that thinks the average mentality is something like 13 years of age, that never forgot H.L. Mencken's notion that nobody lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American people. That's the horseshit the establishment has always lived with.

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.

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

We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.