The people responsible for the dollars that will buy the sex and violence so many deplore, don't even know what's going - well, of course they know. But they're comfortably ensconced in their country clubs and churches, and very far removed from the decisions that are made on their behalf.

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

America is a country of excess.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

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

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.