I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.

Next up [new TV stars] was [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis on 'The Colgate Comedy Hour.'

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

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

I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.

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

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.