As H.L. Mencken once said, 'nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.' Our show [All in the Family] countered that witticism. I think he was wrong.

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

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

Ed Simmons and I became stars in the emerging medium of television. We were new and fresh, just like TV at the time, so we automatically became 'THE' comedy writers for television.

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

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.

My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.