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

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

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

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

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

I think America, unfortunately, collectively thinks of itself as the 'chosen people.' To my knowledge, there are no chosen people, we are all human beings.