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

Power is the goal of religion in general.

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.

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.

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

We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and out, and that's why we set it there.

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.