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

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.

I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality.

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.

When you don't even get to try, you're like in a vacuum.

Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

Victory passes back and forth between men.

I sleep better at night knowing that scientists can clone sheep.

Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.