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.

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

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

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

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

I get a kick out of the fact that people will pick on the writers in California for being responsible for the content. The people seriously responsible for the content are the people who buy it.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.