I Think Americans Have Become A -

'all In The Family' Took Ten Weeks To Take Off In 1971, And We Were Lucky To Start In January, Because If It Had Started In The Regular Fall Season Of 1970, I Don't Know If We Would Have Lasted. The Ratings Didn't Take Off Until The End Of That Fall Season, When The Other Two Networks Ran Out Of Fresh Shows.

Life Is Made Up Of Small Pleasures. Happiness Is Made Up Of Those Tiny Successes. The Big Ones Come Too Infrequently. And If You Don't Collect All These Tiny Successes, The Big Ones Don't Really Mean Anything.

We Just May Be The Most Well-informed, Yet Least Self-aware, People In History.

We Are A Country Of Excess. So It's Not The Violence, Per Se, But The Exacerbation And Constant Repetition.

I Started By Writing, With My Partner Ed Simmons, A Monologue For Danny Thomas, That He Performed At Ciro's Nightclub In Los Angeles.