The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

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

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

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.

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

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