We Are A Country Of Excess. So

'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.

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.

We Got Ratings. It Isn't That They Won't Quarrel With You, Or Say You're Always Right. But As Long As You Stay Strong And The Ratings Are Good And You're Reasonable - I Don't Think We Fought Unreasonably. We Basically Won That Right.

We Had Two African American Writers [eric Monte And Michael Evans] On The Show ['good Times'] That Knew Cabrini Green Inside And Out, And That's Why We Set It There.

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.