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.

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

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

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

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

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.

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.