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

America is a country of excess.

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

If there was a sense of - a bigger sense of responsibility in the various leadership positions in America, things would be not as grotesquely overly done as they are now.

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

Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'

I get a kick out of the fact that people will pick on the writers in California for being responsible for the content. The people seriously responsible for the content are the people who buy it.

Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.

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

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

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

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

I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.

Power is the goal of religion in general.

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.

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

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.

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

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.