Ed Simmons and I became stars in the emerging medium of television. We were new and fresh, just like TV at the time, so we automatically became 'THE' comedy writers for television.

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.

No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.

I think you take whatever it is that you would do for free and you figure out the way to do it.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.