The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate.

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.

It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.

I think with challenge comes a little more fun.

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

People this stupid shouldn't be allowed to live.

One good friend is better than a thousand acquaintances.

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.

I've come out of seeing death and chosen to focus on the life that's sprouting everywhere, like flowers. And I want to help feed the flowers.

Tis always morning somewhere.

I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.

Authentic success is living by your own lights.

Originally, I wanted to call the band 'Guns 'n Robots.' I still believe that if we had just called ourselves 'Guns 'n Robots' we'd still be together.

It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.