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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.