TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

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.

Nostalgia was never what it used to be.

A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

To the mean all becomes mean.

I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.

People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

I think most actors . . . We are insecure, in general. I think to be an actor, you need to have an ego, but then, our ego is our worst enemy.

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

All over America, people are making kamikaze choices about what to wear. They are misrepresenting the goods. They are letting their clothes write checks that their personalities cannot cash.