A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

Things so seldom go exactly the way we plan.

The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.

You can offer your vibration on purpose. That's what visualization is. That's what imagination is: projecting thought energy on purpose.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons.

Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.