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"We managed to get by. In 'The People Next Door' for instance, the young lady ran out of the house naked and ran around a tree. Of course, the censors would have none of that. Some chap said, 'you have to cut the scene.'  And producer Herb Brodkin says, 'look, she's in a body stocking. The scene is necessary to the show, and we're gonna do the scene. If you don't want us to do the scene, you're gonna have to come down and stop the show in the middle of it, because we're gonna do it.' And it was done."

"The Golden Age of Television was bound to happen because all the young writers at the time were thinking they were playwrights, and then suddenly this medium came along where you could do the same thing in two weeks and there was an audience for it. There was a market for it."

"Writing is a very lonely thing. That's why I like to go into the editing room - it's a communal thing. I love to get to see how the actors are my instruments."