When I got married for the third time, and I had children from my other marriage there, that's what I said when it came time in the ceremony for me to say something. I said, "I'm grateful to everybody that participated, everybody that participated in my life that got me to this moment. And everything was dead-right because everything is right now."

Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.

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.

The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'

I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.

Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.