When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain..

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

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

In my 90-plus years, I have lived a multitude of lives..

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 dollar….

I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because I find it so repulsive. ….

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 thin….

That's a very hard thing to help the establishment know. We're still an establishment that thinks the average mentality is something like 13 years of….

America is a country of excess..

Success is how you collect your minutes..

We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour com….

... 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….

As a matter of fact, when people ask where my 'point of view' comes from, it was there in one of the first sketches we wrote for [Dean] Martin and [J….

I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles..

We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television..

When I countered that Archie Bunker didn't have to put down a race of people to say that, he replied, 'and you're the dumbest white kid I've ever met….

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

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it..

If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf..

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

We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one customer to come in...and that cu….