Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.

I think for television generally, the question that often arises is, "Does television lead, or does it follow?" You know, does it lead the conversation, or culture, or does it follow what's going on? And I think it does both.

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

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.

I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.

... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning for stable values... When conservative Christian groups talk of failures in our educational system, the erosion of our moral standards, and the waste of young lives, they are addressing real and legitimate concerns... Among secularists, the aversion toward discussion of moral values, let alone religion, can reach absurd extremes.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.