I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine..

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all th….

When something is over, it is over..

As H.L. Mencken once said, 'nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.' Our show [All in the Family] countered t….

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

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think..

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

The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'.

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'….

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

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 ….

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care..

I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition o….

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. ….

I got a call from an agent to come to New York City, and write for the 'Ford Star Revue.' Because at the time there wasn't much 'national television'..

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings..

It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - ….

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

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 guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis show. The four stage m….

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television….