I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.

When something is over, it is over.

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

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.

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.

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.

Life is about having a good time.

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

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 dollars buying what will get them ratings.

I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.

There is no greater companion like books.

I have learned from Twitter that you get that instant feedback about what people think about what you did.

"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.

I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person.

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.

I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.

I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

I think you need to close your mouth cuz you aint gun tie me down.

If people could deal with each other honestly, they would not need agents.

It's just unreal, I'm shocked myself. I've played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody.