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

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

If there was a sense of - a bigger sense of responsibility in the various leadership positions in America, things would be not as grotesquely overly done as they are now.

What happens at the average church or synagogue or mosque is that I don't know many priests or ministers or rabbis who say to their congregation, 'go home and talk about the religion at the kitchen table with your kids...talk about God, talk about what this is all about.' They say in general, come back on the weekend, we'll talk to you about it.

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.

I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.